Day 166 - 28 Sep 95 - Page 44
1 tables. What I would like is if Mr. Atkinson will go
2 outside with both of you -- it is a tiresome way of doing
3 it -- read through to you his statement and you can follow
4 in your own and see where, if at all, they are different.
5 I have not marked my statement, I do not think. If someone
6 else, perhaps Mr. Nicolson, would go out and have mine in
7 front of him while Mr. Atkinson reads, then it can all be
8 checked in the space of five minutes and I will come back
9 at half past 2.
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11 (Short adjournment)
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13 MS. STEEL: It was just that paragraph that was different and
14 you have got the same version as was read out this morning.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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18 MS. STEEL: It is me who has a different one.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, word processors are magic but they can
21 be black magic if ----
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23 MR. RAMPTON: It is bound to be human error, my Lord.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I would guess has happened is that
26 something has been word processed, there has been a
27 printout, been printed, then a variation has been made.
28 That has been printed out and one, at least, of the
29 original copies has got mixed up with the later ones.
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31 MR. RAMPTON: And got sent by mistake to Ms. Steel.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. There we are. Anyway, what I suggest
34 you do is just take a couple of steps back and ascertain
35 what Mr. Atkinson says the situation was and then
36 cross-examine him further on the point.
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38 MS. STEEL: Right. The situation is that you do not know
39 whether or not there were gloves available for use in the
40 walk-in freezer?
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I suggest, for a moment -- you have looked at
43 your statement -- but what is your recollection now?
44 A. That there were not specific gloves for that duty.
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46 Q. For the freezer?
47 A. Yes.
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49 Q. Or for environment/index.html">litter?
50 A. For the freezer.
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52 MS. STEEL: You said that the majority of your -- you said:
53 "At the time I did not have a large number of permanent
54 staff, the majority being part-time." So people were not
55 staying for very long because they were part-time workers;
56 is that what you are saying?
57 A. Whereabouts are you, which paragraph?
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59 Q. It is on page 4 of the statement in paragraph 7.
60 A. Well, I am just saying that out of either 100 and
