Day 187 - 13 Nov 95 - Page 30


     
     1   THE WITNESS:  The only aim of McDonald's is to take away my
     2        responsibilities as union delegate, as I was the first to
     3        create a union branch in all of France; and that the legal
     4        proceedings that McDonald's have attempted to take out
     5        against me are only there to discredit me; and why, up
     6        until the present moment, I have never been found guilty,
     7        because these are just lies.
     8
     9   MR. RAMPTON:  Do I deduce that you give that answer simply from
    10        what I have just told you about these proceedings?
    11        A.  Yes.
    12
    13   MR. MORRIS:  No questions in response.
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Have you concluded your -----
    16
    17   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.  I sat down.
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  You have no further questions?  Thank
    20        you, Mr. Lamti.
    21
    22                         (The witness withdrew)
    23
    24   MR. MORRIS:  We would like to read out Chantal
    25        Villeneuve-Gallez's statements.  The first one, certainly,
    26        has been there for over a year; and the second one we would
    27        have a right to read out, in any event, as a Civil Evidence
    28        Act notice.  The only question would be -- I do not know
    29        what question would be outstanding.  We would just like to
    30        read them out and get this part of the case complete.
    31
    32        The second one was translated by the translator who is
    33        here, so she can verify the translation.
    34
    35   MR. RAMPTON:  Mr. Morris does not have any rights at all so far
    36        as the second one is concerned, until your Lordship has
    37        given leave.  I do not object to leave being given.  At
    38        least, I say that without having read it.
    39
    40        Mr. Morris habitually forgets -- as we all do, it must be
    41        said, from time to time -- that both for Civil Evidence Act
    42        statements and for live witnesses at this stage in the
    43        case, strictly speaking, one always needs your Lordship's
    44        leave at this stage, because everything is out of time.
    45
    46        That said, all I need is an opportunity to ask my expert,
    47        as it were, whether the translation of the second statement
    48        is accurate; and then I need to ask myself whether there is
    49        anything that I need to do with it.  That is not something
    50        that arises today, that second thing; that is something 
    51        that is in the future, if it arises at all.  But I do need 
    52        the opportunity to have it read and checked against the 
    53        translation before it is read.  I will do that over the
    54        midday adjournment.  If I have anything to say about it,
    55        I will say it at two o'clock, or whenever your Lordship
    56        thinks appropriate.
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will discuss the matter further at
    59        two o'clock; and I would like to talk about Miss Tobin, as
    60        well.

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