Day 179 - 30 Oct 95 - Page 18


     
     1        me to just go through the other things I was going to ask?
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  Mr. Rampton, I can see no objection at
     4        all to Mr. Morris putting to the witness matters which
     5        Mr. Davis dealt with in advance.
     6
     7   MR. RAMPTON:  No.  I will probably put them in
     8        cross-examination.
     9
    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You might do but, by the same token, I cannot
    11        see any objection to Mr. Morris doing that.
    12
    13   MR. RAMPTON:  I quite agree.  My fear, my Lord, is not a
    14        technical one -- it never is -- it is simply this, that
    15        I fear, as ever, that a whole lot of things are going to be
    16        put, or information is just going to be elicited by
    17        pressing a button which my witnesses have not had a chance
    18        to deal with.  That is all.  None of this, or very little
    19        of this, was put in any detail to Mr. Davis or, indeed,
    20        Mr. Stanton -- I read the cross-examination yesterday --
    21        when they were cross-examined.
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, but it was said that point was not going
    24        to be taken, so there we are.
    25
    26   MR. RAMPTON:  No, it is not, but it has the misfortune that if
    27        this witness then comes up with a whole lot of unheralded
    28        detail, I do not know what to do with it.
    29
    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  By all means put matters which Mr. Davis
    31        asked about, but do accept my invitation to leave it there.
    32
    33   MR. MORRIS:  Right.  I was not going to go into the -- I am
    34        trying to remember from memory what Mr. Davis dealt with.
    35        I think he dealt with, as far as I can remember, everything
    36        that Mr. Gibney put in his statement.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You have heard, Mr. Rampton may well ask in
    39        cross-examination and I will hear what Mr. Gibney's
    40        evidence is in answer to questions in cross-examination.
    41
    42   MR. MORRIS:  OK.  Going back to you being a shift running Floor
    43        Manager, how long were you a shift running Floor Manager
    44        for?  Was that towards the end of your time?
    45        A.  Two years, from the age of 18 to 20.
    46
    47   Q.   You say in your statement that you were trained to do
    48        things like the crew scheduling and the weekly paperwork.
    49        What was the paperwork (which was meant to be done by
    50        salaried managers only), what kind of paperwork did you do 
    51        when you were contributing to it? 
    52        A.  It was basically a sheet of the store's takings, 
    53        working out ratios, the ratios of ketchup used for burgers
    54        sold, these kind of things, just to check all the
    55        percentages were correct.
    56
    57   Q.   Sorry, this was the operational target referred to?
    58        A.  Yes, operational targets.
    59
    60   Q.   What about things like stock taking, things like that?

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