Day 197 - 07 Dec 95 - Page 46


     
       1      say:  "Well, what about this?" and the Defendants might do
       2      the same.  I agree it is an anomaly.
       3
       4 MR. RAMPTON:  Mr. Coton -- need I say any more, my Lord?
       5
       6 MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, I do not think so.  I would much rather
       7      you just said:  "Do you remember saying yesterday words to
       8      this effect?"  Hopefully, the witness will remember
       9      because I am sure you would not read something which is
      10      not there and we can go on from there.  It may be that
      11      I am being pedantic in the extreme, but I just feel uneasy
      12      about a page here and a page there of a transcript being
      13      produced.
      14
      15 MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I will not produce the pages.
      16
      17 MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I suggest is you ask the witness, if
      18      you would be so kind as to do it this way:  "Do you
      19      remember that you said yesterday something to this
      20      effect?"  Hopefully, the witness will agree and we will
      21      carry on from there.
      22
      23 MR. RAMPTON:  Mr. Coton do you remember saying yesterday that
      24      there was pressure to keep your costs under control, and
      25      that the costs came all the way down from the top.  Do you
      26      remember saying words to that effect -----
      27
      28 MR. JUSTICE BELL:  "Cascade" was the word used.
      29      A.  Yes, I did.
      30
      31 MR. RAMPTON:  "Cascade" was the word, do you remember that?
      32      A.  Yes.
      33
      34 Q.   You remember saying that there were meetings, Anglia
      35      region Managers meetings, do you remember saying that?
      36      A.  Yes.
      37
      38 Q.   Do you remember saying that the Supervisors put their
      39      store Managers under pressure and that then you, the store
      40      Managers, put your Assistant Managers under pressure?
      41      A.  Yes.
      42
      43 Q.   Did you go to any of these Regional Managers' meetings?
      44      A.  As a store Manager, I would have done but not as an
      45      Assistant Manager.
      46
      47 Q.   Did Mr. Frank Stanton attend any of the meetings to which
      48      you went as a Store Manager?
      49      A.  No.
      50
      51 Q.   No, he did not.  Then when Mr. Morris asked you this, the
      52      Anglia region Managers' meetings, who ran those meetings, 
      53      why did you answer:  "At the time in the statement we are
      54      talking about here, that would have been run by Frank
      55      Stanton who was the Supervisor at that time".
      56      A.  Because he was asking questions about a period of time
      57      when I was an Assistant Manager and that would have been
      58      true.
      59
      60 Q.   You never went to a Regional Managers' meeting when Frank

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