Day 311 - 06 Dec 96 - Page 13
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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3 MR. MORRIS: "Nor do"?
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5 MR. RAMPTON: "....nor do C and D". Then, my Lord, going on to
6 damages, tab 4, first page, the citation from
7 Groom v. Cassell, which is a small point, in the first line
8 there is a redundant asterisk at the end of publication;
9 that should just be eradicated.
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11 MS. STEEL: Where?
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13 MR. RAMPTON: First line of 2.1. Then, towards the bottom of
14 that citation, where there are some dots between "publicity
15 and extends", before the dots should be added the words "at
16 the trial" and then the dots should follow, because the
17 dots were a reference to Lee v. Hamilton, which is not
18 needed for the sense of the text. My Lord, I think that is
19 it -- so far as it matters.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Very well. I will hand this back then, if
22 I may.
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24 MR. RAMPTON: Can I just revert quickly to something
25 your Lordship was asking me about on Wednesday morning and
26 I was maybe a bit slow on the uptake? Your Lordship was
27 asking me about pay and conditions, and your Lordship put
28 it to me, in effect, that was not the turnover at
29 McDonald's so great that one was entitled to infer that
30 there might be something wrong with the pay and conditions,
31 to which the students coming and going or going and coming
32 back, and mothers with children and so on, would not be a
33 complete answer. Can I put it this way: I completely
34 forget, when I was answering your Lordship -- I should not
35 have done, but I did -- what the actual figures are, first
36 of all, for the numbers of part-timers, which is about
37 two-thirds; and that is derived from the document E2 behind
38 Lynne Mead's statement in volume X. The second figure,
39 which is equally important -- and it is when you put the
40 two figures together that you understand the significance
41 of them -- the second figure is that something like
42 70 percent of the hourly paid workers are under 21.
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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46 MR. RAMPTON: That is derived both from the Bath clockcard file
47 and from evidence of the witnesses -- Mr. Jardine was
48 certainly one of them. That is day 155, page 59, lines 25
49 to 29.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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53 MR. RAMPTON: All I would say briefly about that is this: it
54 has two consequences, both so far as turnover and pay is
55 concerned. It must mean that a high proportion of the
56 hourly paid workers -- it does mean -- that they are
57 part-timers; it must also mean that a high proportion of
58 those part-timers must be under 21.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
