Day 170 - 05 Oct 95 - Page 21
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have a pretty shrewd suspicion that, at the
2 end of the day, it is not going to help me to decide
3 anything that I cannot perfectly well decide even on what I
4 have heard ------
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6 MR. MORRIS: It may contradict what the witness said.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not know. You might find it in your
9 favour anyway. You do not know yet, do you?
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11 MR. MORRIS: We will see.
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If it can be found easily, let us have it,
14 Mr. Rampton. If there is any real difficulty about it,
15 raise it again because I may think it will not add enough
16 to be worthwhile.
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18 MR. RAMPTON: I understand, but I was not thinking of disputing
19 its relevance, nor would I dispute the relevance of the
20 incident report forms, if there are any, relating to the
21 other people.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I would discourage any further enquiry into
24 that, quite frankly, on either side.
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26 MR. RAMPTON: In that case I would -----
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But if you can find the incident report form
29 -- the Environmental Health Officer coming may well have
30 been a sequel to what I understand, from experience
31 elsewhere, to be the normal form, which is that if someone
32 is injured at work and is off work, the employer has to
33 fill in one side of a statutory form and the injured person
34 fills in details as well. That is for all sorts of reasons
35 relating to provisions for payment of benefits and things
36 of that kind as well as making enquiries, and things of
37 that kind. But I do not think there is any point in
38 searching for that. If you can find the incident report
39 form, well and good.
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41 MR. MORRIS: I just have some documents to serve.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Are there other things apart from that
44 to raise this morning?
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46 MR. MORRIS: I do not think so, no.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us deal with that then.
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50 MR. MORRIS: I will say what they are. (Handed).
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52 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I have been given something which I do
53 not believe I ought to have.
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55 MR. MORRIS: You can have that.
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57 MR. RAMPTON: I do not want it, thank you very much; I do not
58 see it is relevant.
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60 MR. MORRIS: If you do not want it, you do not have to have it.
