Day 149 - 06 Jul 95 - Page 40
1 out areas have a particular relevance in themselves,
2 whatever the text says, because they are relevant to what
3 was being discussed at the Health and Safety meetings.
4 That would apply to any document which has been partially
5 blanked out. If they should be allowed to blank out a
6 document, the sub-headings should be left in.
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8 MS. STEEL: On the blanking out of the minutes and the other
9 matters, there are some aspects of customer safety that do
10 have implications for the crew as well. Obviously, our
11 argument still stands that as the document is about the
12 Health and Safety Task Force, then in its entirety it is
13 relevant but, in any event -- for example, there was some
14 discussion about the tiling in the customer areas.
15 Obviously, employees have to walk over that as well.
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17 The other thing is that there is being a big fuss made
18 about customers being irrelevant. I know when this has
19 been brought up before, if someone has tried to ask a
20 question about customers or something, we have been
21 stopped, so it does not actually make any difference
22 whatsoever if parts about customers are in there.
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24 We are aware that we cannot ask specific questions about
25 specific customer accidents and things like that where
26 there is no bearing on the safety of crew.
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28 MR. MORRIS: We are going to go through these one by one and it
29 is easier if we deal with them at the same time.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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33 MR. MORRIS: The next one was the trial bundles witness
34 statements, the mistakes or different versions of witness
35 statements being available in different bundles or at
36 different times. My understanding was that it applied to
37 the bundles that you had as well, and that you were not
38 sure if the witness statements that you had and had read
39 were the same as the ones which the Plaintiffs were now
40 working on. So it would be helpful if they were properly
41 checked.
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43 MS. STEEL: On the matter of the bundles, as far as I know,
44 there are far more than 18 witnesses still left to come.
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46 MR. RAMPTON: Plaintiffs' witnesses.
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48 MS. STEEL: There are all the publication witnesses apart from
49 anything else and the rainforest ones.
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51 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I can tell you who they are. Apart from
52 the employment witnesses, rainforest is Mr. Cesca,
53 Mr. Contana and Mr. Monroa. Paper, there is Mr. Bateman.
54 Publication, there are six witnesses. I make that,
55 excluding the employment witnesses, ten.
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57 MS. STEEL: There are more than six witnesses on publication.
58 There are the four spies, or private investigators, sorry;
59 there is Mr. Nicholson; there is Mr. Caroll; there is
60 Miss Bensilum.
