Day 170 - 05 Oct 95 - Page 19
1 but you do not remember anything about that?
2 A. No, I cannot remember this one.
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4 Q. The third one down: "Top of cellar staircase, Simon Sykes"
5 -- can you see what that says -----
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7 MR. RAMPTON: "Raining, slipped on wet stairs and fell to bottom
8 of".
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10 MR. MORRIS: "Raining, slipped on wet stairs and fell to bottom
11 of".
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13 MR. RAMPTON: "Grazed left elbow, bruised backside and upper
14 left back, very large bruise" -----
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16 MR. MORRIS: If Mr. Rampton wants to interrupt
17 cross-examination.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He is just trying to be helpful.
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21 MR. RAMPTON: I am only trying to be helpful. It saves time.
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23 MR. MORRIS: Do you remember that accident at all? "Grazed left
24 elbow, bruised backside and upper left back, very large
25 graze inside right arm above and below elbow"; do you
26 remember that?
27 A. Vaguely.
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29 Q. OK. Do you know how long you keep incident report forms
30 for in that store or what the policy was in that store to
31 keep incident report forms?
32 A. About seven years.
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34 Q. Seven years. I think that is about it. I think that is
35 the end of the questions.
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37 MR. RAMPTON: I would like to mention one thing arising out of
38 Mr. Morris' questions. It may have been a slip of the
39 tongue -- one does not know. Mr. Morris asserted, as a
40 fact, that there was some kind of claim by Miss O'Riordon
41 still in being -- he used the present tense.
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43 All I have (which is a document which post dates, I think,
44 the signing of Miss O'Riordon's statement in this case) is
45 a County Court summons making a claim in the Riley County
46 Court on 21st June 1993, dated before or after the
47 statement, I have not checked. My Lord, I do not ask your
48 Lordship to look at it; it is just this is very -----
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Is there any point? I am not interested in
51 any proceedings whether they ---
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53 MR. RAMPTON: No.
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- are going on at all, am I? It does not
56 help me.
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58 MR. RAMPTON: Not in the actual substance of the proceedings
59 because whatever the County Court judge might or might not
60 have decided would not in any way affect your Lordship's
