Day 107 - 24 Mar 95 - Page 09
1 Q. At what speed was the cooking and food handling conducted?
2 A. I am not sure I understand that.
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4 Q. If it helps, you said "speedily" in your original
5 statement, if that refreshes your memory?
6 A. "Speedily" in the sense that slick, straightforward;
7 they were not rushing around but there was clearly a sense
8 of urgency there. Things were moving, things were not
9 hanging around, the stuff was going out of the fridges on
10 to the grills, and from there in that sense there was not
11 food hanging around. There were not people standing around
12 doing nothing. One had a sense of continual movement and
13 continual progression.
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15 Q. Can you get volume XIII, please? I think it is pink volume
16 XIII, tab 55?
17 A. Yes.
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19 Q. This is the Health & Safety Executive Report by the
20 Accident Prevention Advisory Unit into McDonald's
21 Restaurants, yes?
22 A. Yes.
23
24 Q. Could you turn to page 828, internal page, bundle page, or
25 whatever, 828 at the bottom?
26 A. Yes.
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28 Q. Starting with the word "hustle" at the bottom of the page
29 and going over the page; just cast your eye over it.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I just say so really it is out in the
32 open, on everything I have read so far "hustle" seems to me
33 to be an American word; the nearest word I can think of
34 (and seems to have an awful lot in common with it in
35 English, as used in this country) is "bustle". I say that
36 so that you can disabuse me if I am wrong. It is a word
37 which in our use has more complimentary connotations than
38 uncomplimentary, which is why I have brought it out so that
39 you can see that that has crossed my mind.
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41 MR. MORRIS: I would say "hustle", there is a slight emphasis on
42 "hustle".
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There you are; I have only said it so that if
45 you wanted, in due course, you can deal with it.
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47 MR. MORRIS: Can you read paragraphs 240 and 241 on 829? Would
48 that kind of "hustle" atmosphere that is described there,
49 concern you -----
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Ask it in an unleading way, whether he -----
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53 MR. RAMPTON: I do not mind, my Lord. I have sat here and
54 I have listened to more leading questions in the last
55 day-and-a-half than I remember ever having heard before; I
56 have made no objection. I do not mind. It saves time.
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58 MR. MORRIS: I would like to say I do not believe I have asked a
59 single leading question. I have only taken my cue from
60 Mr. Rampton in putting "yes" or "no" questions.
