Day 151 - 10 Jul 95 - Page 57
1 A. I may well have been copied on such a memo.
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3 Q. As market manager, you would as well, would you?
4 A. I would hope so; certainly been copied in on it, yes.
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6 Q. Do you recall any such memo?
7 A. Specifically with hustle? No, I do not recall.
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9 MR. MORRIS: Were you aware of the Health and Safety Executive's
10 Accident Prevention and Advisory Unit investigation into
11 safety at McDonald's, when it was happening at the time?
12 A. If it is the same one where I was interviewed ---
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14 Q. Very likely.
15 A. -- by somebody, if the two are the same, then I would
16 say I would recollect it, but you would have to give me a
17 date on that to give me some more information.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Who was it who interviewed you; what was his
20 or her position?
21 A. I believe they were on a -- they were from Liverpool
22 University, or something. They may well have been on a
23 secondment to the Health and Safety Executive; and
24 I believe they talked to a number of people regarding their
25 perception of health and safety. That would have been --
26 sorry.
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28 MR. MORRIS: This was the same thing we are talking about, where
29 the Health and Safety Executive produced a report, having
30 interviewed right up to Paul Preston, looked at all the
31 procedures and -----
32 A. I remember getting interviewed in Cardiff. So it would
33 have been, I suppose, when I was a senior supervisor
34 post-1987, 90 something. But I was certainly interviewed
35 and I was aware of a number of people in the hierarchy
36 being interviewed. So the two may well be the same.
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38 Q. I think the interview took place -- I am getting confused
39 now -- 1991, I think it was. I have not got a copy in
40 front of me.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Have you looked at the list at the back?
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44 MR. MORRIS: I have not got it in front of me.
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46 MR. ATKINSON: The report is at tab 55 of volume XIII, pink.
47 They do not give the names, my Lord; they give the position
48 of people being interviewed.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I appreciate that.
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52 MR. ATKINSON: It is the last page of that tab.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, page 873.
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56 MR. MORRIS: (To the witness) Have you got the last page?
57 A. I certainly recognise the name Andrew Foster, and it
58 seems I was correct -- I remembered Liverpool had somewhere
59 in there, and it says he was Accident and Prevention
60 Advisory Unit, Bootle, Merseyside. I would think it was
