Day 128 - 24 May 95 - Page 51
1 kept documents in your department?
2 A. Yes.
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4 Q. You have?
5 A. Yes.
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7 Q. Did that include accident books?
8 A. It did.
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10 Q. What did you tell them?
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12 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, it depends who Ms. Steel is asking
13 Mrs. Barnes about. If Ms. Steel is trying to elicit from
14 Mrs. Barnes communications which have passed between her
15 and McDonald's lawyers, then Mrs. Barnes must not answer
16 the question.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. Have you been asked how long you kept
19 documents in your department by Mr. Nicholson or any other
20 member of management?
21 A. By Mr. Nicholson, yes.
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23 Q. Sorry?
24 A. By Mr. Nicholson, yes.
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26 MS. STEEL: What did you tell him about how long accident books
27 were kept for?
28 A. I referred him to one of my people who fed back the
29 information I have just given to you.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That the accident books say three years
32 themselves?
33 A. The statutory requirement is three years and that is
34 written on the accident book.
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36 Q. Is there something inside the cover of an accident book, it
37 being a standard publication? It is the HSE itself, is it,
38 which has set the form?
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40 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, it is to be found ---
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Health and Safety Executive.
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44 MR. RAMPTON: --- on the cover of the Colchester accident book
45 which is 57L of volume 32. My Lord, we looked at it
46 yesterday.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The entry which must be kept for at least
49 three years from the date on which it was made, but since
50 they are all bound together, that means you have, in
51 effect, to keep the book for at least three years from the
52 date of the last entry in it?
53 A. Yes.
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55 Q. That is the practicality of it?
56 A. That is right.
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58 MS. STEEL: Were you also asked -----
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I cannot even remember what I have asked
