Day 205 - 17 Jan 96 - Page 54
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have dealt with that point already, have I
2 not?
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4 MR. RAMPTON: I believe so.
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6 MR. MORRIS: I do not recall any leave application.
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8 MR. RAMPTON: No. I am not sure I actually made a formal
9 application.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is why I am coming to it now. Is there
12 any objection to Hendon, Cox or Perrett being called?
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14 MS. STEEL: I am sure we will get a shocked reaction, but
15 neither of us have actually read the statements yet.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you refer me to them, Mr. Rampton?
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19 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I will do my best.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: They are in 10B, are they not?
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23 MR. RAMPTON: They will be in 10B. I think I can easily
24 summarise what they say and the reasons why they are being
25 called.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: They are 39I.
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29 MS. STEEL: We have not actually got copies in court.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: 39G. Ian Hendon is 39I. Christopher Cox is
32 39H and Kevin Perrett is 39G.
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34 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, do not have them here myself but, from
35 memory -- and it is fairly recent -- can I remind your
36 Lordship how this arose? Mr. Logan was to be called.
37 I took objection -- I said, and I think your Lordship
38 agreed, that his existing statement at the time was devoid
39 of any kind of particularity. Mr. Morris then got some
40 details from Mr. Logan which he, Mr. Morris, wrote down on
41 a sheet and a half of paper, giving names and allegations
42 as they related to those named people. Your Lordship will
43 remember that it was at about that time that we made very
44 extensive discovery in relation to Bath, so that your
45 Lordship could, as it were, take a bird's eye view over
46 three different months in two different years of, in
47 effect, the way that the Bath restaurant worked.
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49 The reason for these three witnesses are in the case of
50 Perrett and Cox that they are named crew members about whom
51 allegations were made by Mr. Logan, according to
52 Mr. Morris' note, concerning the way in which they had been
53 treated by management at Bath. I cannot remember which
54 particular allegations related to those two witnesses.
55 Kevin Perrett's was that he was victimised or mistreated by
56 late performance reviews, I think; Christopher Cox, that he
57 was worked long hours and was badly treated by scheduling
58 hours, I think; Mr. Hendon is called because he during the
59 relevant period has done much or most of the schedule
60 himself -- he is a First Assistant -- and also because he
