Day 165 - 27 Sep 95 - Page 23
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2 It is right that I tell your Lordship that there also
3 exists, as one can see from the contents table which we
4 have included on page 2, a number of appendices which we
5 have not copied. Those consist of blanks of the actual
6 forms used in the restaurants, examples of which, as it
7 were, practical use examples, are given, fictitious
8 examples, in the body of the document that we have
9 produced.
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11 MR. MORRIS: Could you say which pages they are?
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13 MR. RAMPTON: No, I cannot possibly you that; you will have to
14 look. If I am wrong about that, no doubt I will be picked
15 up on it. The only one I cannot find, having said that, is
16 the one called "People positioning floor plans, section
17 11". If that were thought relevant, I will try to get a
18 copy of an example of people positioning floor plans.
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20 Mrs. Brinley-Codd has read the whole document. She tells
21 me that all the other forms and charts are contained by way
22 of example in the body of this document. The appendices
23 are the actual blanks used in the restaurants.
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25 I would also tell your Lordship that there is another very
26 bulky document not going by this title which is what is
27 used by the person who sets up the computer to do the
28 scheduling. In other words, what that does is tell you how
29 to use the IPS computer system. It does not tell you what
30 are the purposes, functions and principles of scheduling.
31 That document was not written by McDonald's at all, as one
32 would expect. It is about 200 pages long and it was
33 written by a firm of computer programmers or software
34 experts in the United States. It is, in other words, a
35 technical document which explains how you put the system on
36 to the computer or how you make the computer do what you
37 want.
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39 Having said that, and told your Lordship of the existence
40 of that document, I would add that, in my submission,
41 having regard to the contents of this document, which
42 contains the relevant information, what is the point of
43 scheduling, what are you supposed to achieve by it,
44 discovery of the technical, how to use the computer
45 instruction manual is, perhaps, irrelevant and certainly
46 not necessary for disposing fairly of this case.
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48 I do not think I can say any more about that at this stage,
49 except this, that if the Defendants would like to look at
50 the computer instruction manual, if your Lordship thought
51 it appropriate that they should, they are perfectly at
52 liberty to do so by way of inspection. We do not intend to
53 make copies of it.
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55 MR. MORRIS: Has this got a date?
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57 MR. RAMPTON: No, it has not.
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It has copyright 1991 on one page but that
60 may be just part of the -----
