Day 155 - 14 Jul 95 - Page 47
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2 MR. MORRIS: Yes, I can see.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- the sentence which starts with the three
5 words at the end of that line, the whole of the next line
6 and half the next.
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8 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is not mystery. It would just be unfair
11 if in front of you I spoke out about what Mr. Morris must
12 conduct the cross-examination in his own way, and I am just
13 directing him to the particular part which he may well have
14 in mind in any event.
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16 MR. MORRIS: The general situation with lockers at the store
17 around this period, as I understand it -- tell me if I am
18 wrong -- was that people tended to have their own locker,
19 but they had to put their own lock on it?
20 A. Their own lock; it would not be their own locker.
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22 Q. Right, but people would prefer to keep the same locker each
23 day?
24 A. Prefer, but that is not the policy.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Really, I do not think you need go into that,
27 whether in itself or as an approach to the particular
28 issue. What I would like you to do is put the bit I have
29 just referred to you.
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31 MR. MORRIS: Yes, I was just building up for that really.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I mean, there must be a limit to build up.
34 We have had some build-up (which I do not criticise at all)
35 before lunch which I have seen you are directing at
36 Mr. Giardina's credibility about the union leaflets and so
37 on. I really do think we have got to the point where you
38 should just put that allegation and see what the response
39 is.
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41 MR. MORRIS (To the witness): Do you remember Dave Magee
42 speaking to you saying that you had removed his lock from
43 his locker?
44 A. No.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Put what the response was.
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48 MR. MORRIS: If somebody was keeping a locker to themselves
49 against your policy, yes, and you could not find who it
50 was, what would you have to do?
51 A. First of all, we would put a notice up in the crew room
52 maybe saying that we want all the lockers emptied, etc.
53 etc. If by a week, or whatever the date on the letter in
54 the crew room, or if by that time they still had not, then
55 I have a little tiny locker that would go into the hole as
56 well. So then when someone tried to got their uniform,
57 they would have to come to me. That was stated quite
58 clearly in the crew room that that is what would happen.
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60 Q. If they did not come to him, say, they died and did not
