Day 168 - 03 Oct 95 - Page 52
1 did you hire taxis?
2 A. No, depending on what state the stock was in. If it is
3 frozen stock, then we had a company who had refrigerated
4 vehicles that we could move the stock in, or you just ask
5 -- an easy way of doing it would be to phone Golden West
6 and ask if they had a truck in the area, because they have
7 refrigerated vehicles anyway, and they would just pop it
8 across for us, and -- the Golden West option is the easier
9 one. If it was refrigerated stock, again the same sort of
10 rules would apply, and if it was dry stock, that is
11 something like ketchup which did not need to be
12 refrigerated ----
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If it was what stock?
15 A. Dry stock.
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17 Q. No, the one before that?
18 A. Chilled, refrigerated rather than frozen -- if it was
19 dry stock, something like ketchup or pickles or something
20 similar or a paper stock, then you could just transport
21 that in, say, a taxi or a store Manager's car.
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23 MR. MORRIS: I will not ask you about customer complaints about
24 under cooking, undercooked burgers until we get these
25 documents. Could we ask for an indication whether the
26 documents are likely to arrive today?
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28 MR. RAMPTON: No, I do not think they are. It has been a
29 terrible paper chase. We have made every effort we
30 possibly can to find them. The last that was known of them
31 was -- the ones that Mr. Richards put in the post I know
32 not what has happened to them; Royal Mail have to answer
33 for that. We have been seeking, obviously, duplicates of
34 copies. The last we were told was that the likely site for
35 them was Sutton Coldfield, which is the head quarters for
36 Mr. Richards' region, and we have made an enquiry there.
37 I have not got them yet. As soon as I have them I will
38 disclose them. Yes, they are being faxed in our chambers
39 as soon as they are found.
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I suggest is you press on because we
42 have a lot of other discovery issues, and if we have
43 discovery which requires the recall of Mr. Richards, then
44 that is the course which we will be following. What I am
45 not prepared to do is make any decisions, even provisional
46 now, until I know, at the end of the day, whether by
47 direction or agreement, I know what extra documentation is
48 to be disclosed and you have had an opportunity to look at
49 its content. How do you think you are doing with
50 Mr. Richards at the moment?
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52 MR. MORRIS: Helen has some questions; I have got possibly
53 another hour and a half, or something. So I think we will
54 be going on tomorrow, but it should not go beyond ----
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: How long do you think your questions will
57 take?
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59 MS. STEEL: I am not sure, but I would say definitely not
60 longer than an hour.
