Day 208 - 24 Jan 96 - Page 19
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. What do you take that
3 to mean? I can see what it might mean, but I have to say
4 it is not at all clear to me. I suppose there is not much
5 point in asking you, if you were not there. Is it a phrase
6 you come across before at all or not?
7 A. What, the "could use hours"?
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9 Q. Sorry?
10 A. The second -----
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12 Q. Can you turn out towards the court, Mr. Cox?
13 A. Are you looking at the second sentence?
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15 Q. I thought it was -----
16 A. I would ------
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18 Q. I thought it was the third sentence that -----
19 A. Yes.
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21 MS. STEEL: The third paragraph, second sentence?
22 A. "Can use hours as a...."
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Sorry, which page are you on?
25 A. 195.
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27 MS. STEEL: 195.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is the third paragraph or sentence under
30 "Sean Richards".
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32 MS. STEEL: It is the third paragraph, but it is the second
33 sentence of the third paragraph.
34 A. It starts: "Can use hours" -- I cannot read the next
35 bit.
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37 MR. MORRIS: "Scheduled to advantage".
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. I take it all together to try to get
40 what the meaning might be.
41 A. I have not any experience of it, but I understand what
42 the sentence could mean: if he was unhappy with somebody
43 for whatever reason, he could schedule them hours that
44 were, perhaps, unsocial.
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46 Q. That is how you -----
47 A. That is how I would read it. I do not necessarily
48 agree with it, but .....
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50 MS. STEEL: You have generally been someone who has been asking
51 to work quite a lot of hours anyway, are you not?
52 A. Yes.
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54 Q. Have you ever been in charge of scheduling?
55 A. No, so I do not understand the mechanisms behind it.
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57 MS. STEEL: Can I just ask something: where a witness has just
58 said he has not seen or heard of other crew experiencing
59 any particular thing, that is not evidence, is it, that it
60 did not happen?
