Day 167 - 02 Oct 95 - Page 34


     
     1        Mr. Tindale to clear off!
     2
     3   MR. RAMPTON:  No, he has an urgent appointment at the bank and I
     4        wondered if maybe he could just go.
     5
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  As far as I am concerned, he can go.  I did
     7        not want to send him away and have Mrs. Brinley-Codd
     8        running off down the corridor after him!  Yes?
     9
    10   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, it is entirely a matter for your
    11        Lordship, but we do not need any further time with
    12        Mr. Richards because we have caught up with Mr. Morris's
    13        handwritten notes -- we did that over the adjournment -- so
    14        far Mr. Richards is concerned.
    15
    16        The only thing which is troubling me at the moment -- there
    17        are two things, one is the Operations manual and that we
    18        can deal with quite separately.  I know Mr. Richards
    19        himself has some information about that which, if your
    20        Lordship thought it a good idea, Mr. Atkinson could ask him
    21        about when he gives evidence.  The other thing is the
    22        incident report forms for undercooked products.  We have
    23        fallen between two stalls at the moment.  The posted copies
    24        which Mr. Richards sent to us on Thursday, at about
    25        lunch-time on Thursday, last week, following your
    26        Lordship's indication that you thought they ought to be
    27        disclosed, have not yet arrived.  We have managed to get
    28        some of them from Head Office, some information, yes, but
    29        not the actual forms themselves.  Is that right?  I would
    30        suggest that those be left over anyway (because
    31        Mr. Richards, I suspect, will have to come back tomorrow)
    32        until tomorrow.  We will do our best to get them to the
    33        Defendants as soon as we possibly can.
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  But I am anticipating -- perhaps Mr. Morris
    36        will tell me if I am wrong -- that having given some
    37        further information on the sheet which you have, he may
    38        raise again the question of what, if any, documents, if
    39        they still exist, could usefully be discovered.
    40
    41   MR. RAMPTON:  I have had a look at that.  With the possible
    42        exception of the last two paragraphs on the second
    43        sheet  ---
    44
    45   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What does "PR" stand for?
    46
    47   MS. STEEL:   "Performance review".
    48
    49   MR. RAMPTON:  -- that possibility and these allegations to the
    50        employment office, which I think means the government, 
    51        which is a new allegation -- yes, and there is a letter of 
    52        complaint which we certainly do not have.  I suspect that 
    53        since Mr. Morris has been able to say that the complaint
    54        are numbered one to 10 that he, Mr. Morris, may have a copy
    55        in which case we should be given one.
    56
    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not know.  It may just be that Mr. Logan
    58        can remember that there were 10 numbered complaint on it.
    59
    60   MR. MORRIS:  That is correct.

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