Day 171 - 11 Oct 95 - Page 12
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have listed them as 12, service history
3 file for 1994; 13, internal temperature check book; and
4 then I have put as 14 what I have called IRFs, incident
5 report forms, as a loose end.
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7 MR. RAMPTON: I know. It is an annoying loose end. (Pause) The
8 answer to your Lordship's question about 12 and 13, 12 is a
9 service history file; it is about the size of a small
10 mountain. If it contained anything relating either to the
11 failure of the RCD during that period -- I think it was
12 about eight months or maybe two months, I forget which --
13 and if it contained anything about toasters during the
14 relevant period -- and I think there was one other thing;
15 no, there was not -- or if it contained anything about the
16 splits in the grease trough, why then, we would disclose
17 those parts of it. But, to be honest, we have not, in the
18 time we have had available, ploughed through this huge fat
19 file to see whether there is any relevant material of that
20 kind.
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22 The internal temperature check book is exactly the same
23 document as number three ---
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. Yes.
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27 MR. RAMPTON: -- my Lord, which means that we do not have
28 anything going back as far as Mr. Logan's time, so far as
29 13 is concerned.
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31 14, Mr. Richards has found copies of two of the three
32 incident report forms that he sent to us before he gave
33 evidence, which never arrived. We asked him yesterday,
34 I think it was, to fax them to us in time for today, but we
35 have not received them yet. I am fairly confident that we
36 will have at any rate two out of those three before very
37 long, whatever the GPO might have done with the originals.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is really for information, because
40 I have already ruled on that.
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42 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, and I have agreed that they were relevant,
43 anyway. Your Lordship already has two from 1993 as well,
44 I think.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will hear Mr. Morris at the moment. But
47 what would help me -- and I think it is information I would
48 probably need before ruling on this matter -- is whether
49 there are the equivalent documents which you have referred
50 to under 7 and 8 for any of the months July, August and
51 September 1993, which is the busy summer period.
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53 MR. RAMPTON: I can but ask. I have not so far been asked for
54 any of those either by your Lordship or Mr. Morris.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is quite right. I did not raise it.
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58 MR. RAMPTON: Nor did Mr. Morris in his application.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, he does not, but that does not mean to
