Day 102 - 13 Mar 95 - Page 33
1 design person, yes, who is responsible for managing that
2 overall issue, yes?
3 A. We have a buildings manager who is responsible for the
4 design of new buildings and the building of new premises,
5 if that is what you mean.
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7 Q. Are there any other particular jobs like that, we have a
8 nutritionist, we have a building design specialist, have
9 you any other -----
10 A. Well, it is a very big company. I mean, we have
11 managers responsible for all sorts of aspects.
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do not go through them all, Mr. Morris. Put
14 your question so as far as it relates to animal welfare.
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16 MR. MORRIS: Mr. Pattison has already said there is no-one with
17 specific responsibility for the management of animal
18 welfare as a job, that is their job. I am trying to see
19 does the company have people equivalent in, say, like what
20 you have just said. (To the witness): I mean, are there
21 other job descriptions of other things, just that you can
22 think of off the top of your head?
23 A. Well, yes, but I do not -- I mean, there are hundreds
24 of jobs with lots of job descriptions. I do not understand
25 what -- the welfare, the specific welfare, is a function
26 that comes into a lot of people's job descriptions.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We will break off there. Yes, 2 o'clock.
29
30 (Luncheon adjournment)
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32 MR. MORRIS: Just to clarify that last point, I did not ask it
33 very clearly: So, when you said there are hundreds of
34 people with varying job descriptions, are they people based
35 in some kind of office complex at Sun Valley who basically
36 work inside?
37 A. Some people will work inside, some people will be based
38 at the agricultural office, some will be based in Hereford,
39 some have a combination of office and outside jobs -- all
40 sorts.
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42 Q. But they are not people that are involved in the day-to-day
43 running of any particular sheds; they are not managers in
44 that respect?
45 A. No, the managers of the sheds are actually out on site.
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47 Q. So, of all those, what you call, hundreds of people, there
48 is not one person whose job is animal welfare?
49 A. Not singularly on its own, no.
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51 Q. If there was somebody with a job whose sole responsibility
52 was the welfare of animals .....
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54 MS. STEEL: Just going back to what I was asking about earlier,
55 about the change over from Sun Valley catchers to contract
56 catchers: Quite a number of the catchers were sacked at
57 that time, were they not, the Sun Valley catchers?
58 A. Yes, I think they were.
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60 Q. So that you could bring in the contract catching teams?
