Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 39


     
     1        definite job elsewhere".  Answer, 13:  "Resigning my
     2        position without having immediate employment was a very
     3        difficult decision to make.  However, I no longer found it
     4        acceptable that I should be at risk of liability when I had
     5        no control of the circumstances".  Then it is signed:  "I,
     6        Mike Logan, verify that this statement was made in reply to
     7        questions from the Department of Employment from November
     8        1994", and it is signed by you.
     9
    10        With the changes that you have made, are you prepared to
    11        stand by that statement you made?
    12        A.  Yes.
    13
    14   Q.   Or is there anything else?
    15        A.   Yes, I stand by it.  This last bit, I did, like
    16        I said, I was going to go and do some work for a chap
    17        making lamps, but that fell through because I dislocated my
    18        knee, but I did not tell the Employment Department that.
    19
    20   Q.   The next thing is that you were asked by the Plaintiffs to
    21        get some details of specific people that had ---
    22        A.  Right.
    23
    24   Q.   -- you had outlined some general problems?
    25        A.  When we were on the phone.
    26
    27   Q.   Yes, I phoned you to ask, as I had been requested, about
    28        some examples, yes ---
    29        A.  Yes.
    30
    31   Q.   -- of people, of the general problems that you had ---
    32        A.  Well, there was a lot.
    33
    34   Q.   -- applied to them?
    35        A.  Yes, there was -- a lot of the statements said that I
    36        had accused somebody of being mistreated or whatever, and
    37        there were only two people I said were being mistreated,
    38        and they were John Gore and Mike Stokes.  The other people,
    39        I just, you know, it was things like unsocial hours and
    40        very long hours.  You know, I did not say they did not ask
    41        for them though; I just pointed out these people did very
    42        long hours.
    43
    44   Q.   If we look at that, have you got that statement behind
    45        whatever you have?
    46        A.  Yes, I have got the thing you wrote out, yes.
    47
    48   Q.   Yes.  Can I just ask, it will save time if I actually read
    49        this out and the witness just corrects me if there is
    50        anything which is inaccurate rather than ask him to 
    51        comment.  Is that OK? 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is.  It is OK, as far as I am concerned,
    54        since they are Mr. Morris' notes, not a statement which you
    55        have prepared yourself and signed ---
    56        A.  Yes.
    57
    58   Q.   Because if there is ------
    59        A.  Well, I feel like there has been some kind of mix up.
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