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1 accused me of being involved. I was questioned and held in
2 custody before the employee retracted the accusation,
3 stating that he was pressured by the management to denounce
4 me. I then made an official complaint about this libellous
5 denunciation.
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7 "The aim of all these accusations was to have me criminally
8 convicted, so that I could no longer continue as works
9 representative/delegate as this requires a clean criminal
10 record."
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12 I believe -- is that fairly clear to everybody?
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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16 MR. MORRIS: "All this was due to my involvement with the trade
17 union."
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment.
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21 MR. MORRIS: Yes. We crossed out a sentence there. Is
22 that -----
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause. Let me just follow. (Pause)
25 Yes.
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27 MR. MORRIS: That does not appear in your original statement,
28 does it?
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is just not there, as far as I can see.
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32 THE INTERPRETER: That whole paragraph is inaccurate; and the
33 corrected version appears above, starting "the aim of all
34 these accusations".
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36 MR. MORRIS: I see. OK.
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38 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, the first line of the typed should be
39 struck out as well, because I cannot find that either.
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Just pause again. (Pause) Yes.
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43 MR. MORRIS: "The election for the staff representatives
44 (mandatory as of 1993)...." Can you ask why it became
45 mandatory? Why did it become mandatory of 1993, the
46 election of staff representatives?
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: (To the interpreter): Stop for a moment.
49 Could you translate the words in brackets in the paragraph
50 in the French, because that is what the original translator
51 has interpreted as "mandatory as of 1993"; and it occurred
52 to me a bit of own knowledge has crept in there, because
53 I do not get it from the French. But do you see it
54 says "with regard to the election of staff
55 representatives"; and then how would you translate the
56 words in brackets?
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58 THE INTERPRETER: Personnel delegates in 1993 and works council
59 in 1994.
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