Day 159 - 20 Jul 95 - Page 28
1 Q. Do you remember anybody called Dave Magee?
2 A. The name sounds familiar, but I cannot put a face to
3 him. The name sounds familiar.
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5 Q. Have you read the statement which he has written for this
6 case?
7 A. I did.
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9 Q. Can I ask you (and I only need one word or one sentence;
10 I am not going to ask you to comment on it in any detail)
11 what your reaction was when you had read Mr. Magee's
12 statement?
13 A. I thought, "what a liar".
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15 MR. MORRIS: If she is going to say he is a liar, then you will
16 have to put everything in the statement and identify which
17 bits are lies, we submit.
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19 MR. RAMPTON: I will leave that to the Defendants.
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21 MR. MORRIS: Otherwise then it can be ignored as a piece of
22 evidence.
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24 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, if the Defendants wish to challenge that
25 answer, then it is open to them to do so.
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27 MR. MORRIS: No, I believe the obligation is on the Plaintiffs.
28 We were put under obligation -----
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let the evidence come in-chief and then you
31 ask the questions you want in cross-examination.
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33 MR. MORRIS: I believe that yesterday, or whenever it was, we
34 were told that we had to put the matters in our statements
35 where -----
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37 MR. RAMPTON: That is because you were cross-examining.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: When we come to cross-examination, I will
40 help you, if need be, with what you do, but I am not going
41 to interrupt the way Mr. Rampton takes his own witness
42 in-chief. He was entitled to ask the question. You have
43 the answer. We can pick it up again when you come to
44 cross-examine. If you want some help from me about just
45 what you need to put or do not, I will give it to you.
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47 MR. MORRIS: Mr. Rampton knew what the answer was going to be
48 when he asked the question. Therefore, the obligation
49 should be on him. It is not our obligation to challenge
50 it.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You may be right about that, but bother about
53 that when you come to cross-examination.
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55 MR. RAMPTON (To the witness): Thank you, Mrs. Farrer. I am not
56 going to ask anything more about Mr. David Magee or his
57 statement except this: Do you remember whether or not in
58 1986/1987 Mr. Magee or anybody else in the restaurant was
59 running a recruitment campaign to try to get people to join
60 a union?
