Day 173 - 16 Oct 95 - Page 30
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2 MS. STEEL: I do not know whether it matters at all, actually.
3 I am trying to get to where he was from, because there
4 seems to be this conflicting documentation, that is all.
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6 MR. MORRIS: I think the witness's evidence was that he came
7 from the US, anyway.
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9 (To the witness) Just regarding Mr. Stein, you said he
10 came to advise you on legal matters. How could he give you
11 any advice if he knew nothing about Irish labour laws?
12 A. I think his experience and his knowledge.
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14 Q. Experience with what, sorry?
15 A. His experience with understanding the law. He was able
16 to understand much quicker and much clearer than I would
17 the legal points.
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19 Q. Mr. Stein said in evidence that he worked on the injunction
20 matter against the picketing. Does that help to locate how
21 long into the strike he would have actually arrived?
22 A. Well, again, I cannot recollect exactly when Mr. Stein,
23 you know, came to Dublin, except that I can remember him
24 helping and dealing with the barrister and the solicitor as
25 regards the injunctions.
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27 Q. So would that have been roughly the same time as
28 Steve Copeland was around?
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Were they there together ever, that you
31 recall; may they have been?
32 A. I think they may have been later on when there were
33 further injunctions sought; particularly, there were some
34 injunctions later, in later months, a month or so later; it
35 may have been then.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If I might suggest, I think you have taken
38 that far enough.
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40 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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42 MS. STEEL: The new documents that were served the other day,
43 I do not know whether you still have them to hand? They
44 were at tab 59A.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: They are towards the end of divider 59.
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48 THE WITNESS: 59A? Yes, I have it.
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50 MS. STEEL: The first two pages appear to be part of the same
51 document, and then there are two other pages with wage
52 rates. The rates are not consistent throughout all three
53 documents. You would not happen to know why that might be?
54 A. Are you referring to page 1?
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56 Q. Well, comparing, for example, pages 1, 3 and 4, or 2, 3 and
57 4, the wage rates are not consistent that are recorded
58 there; some of them are the same, but others -----
59 A. I do not recall why they would be different.
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