Day 107 - 24 Mar 95 - Page 09


     
     1   Q.   At what speed was the cooking and food handling conducted?
     2        A.  I am not sure I understand that.
     3
     4   Q.   If it helps, you said "speedily" in your original
     5        statement, if that refreshes your memory?
     6        A.  "Speedily" in the sense that slick, straightforward;
     7        they were not rushing around but there was clearly a sense
     8        of urgency there.  Things were moving, things were not
     9        hanging around, the stuff was going out of the fridges on
    10        to the grills, and from there in that sense there was not
    11        food hanging around.  There were not people standing around
    12        doing nothing.  One had a sense of continual movement and
    13        continual progression.
    14
    15   Q.   Can you get volume XIII, please?  I think it is pink volume
    16        XIII, tab 55?
    17        A.  Yes.
    18
    19   Q.   This is the Health & Safety Executive Report by the
    20        Accident Prevention Advisory Unit into McDonald's
    21        Restaurants, yes?
    22        A.  Yes.
    23
    24   Q.   Could you turn to page 828, internal page, bundle page, or
    25        whatever, 828 at the bottom?
    26        A.  Yes.
    27
    28   Q.   Starting with the word "hustle" at the bottom of the page
    29        and going over the page; just cast your eye over it.
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can I just say so really it is out in the
    32        open, on everything I have read so far "hustle" seems to me
    33        to be an American word; the nearest word I can think of
    34        (and seems to have an awful lot in common with it in
    35        English, as used in this country) is "bustle".  I say that
    36        so that you can disabuse me if I am wrong.  It is a word
    37        which in our use has more complimentary connotations than
    38        uncomplimentary, which is why I have brought it out so that
    39        you can see that that has crossed my mind.
    40
    41   MR. MORRIS:  I would say "hustle", there is a slight emphasis on
    42        "hustle".
    43
    44   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  There you are; I have only said it so that if
    45        you wanted, in due course, you can deal with it.
    46
    47   MR. MORRIS:  Can you read paragraphs 240 and 241 on 829?  Would
    48        that kind of "hustle" atmosphere that is described there,
    49        concern you -----
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Ask it in an unleading way, whether he  ----- 
    52 
    53   MR. RAMPTON:  I do not mind, my Lord.  I have sat here and
    54        I have listened to more leading questions in the last
    55        day-and-a-half than I remember ever having heard before; I
    56        have made no objection.  I do not mind.  It saves time.
    57
    58   MR. MORRIS:  I would like to say I do not believe I have asked a
    59        single leading question.  I have only taken my cue from
    60        Mr. Rampton in putting "yes" or "no" questions.

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