Day 202 - 11 Jan 96 - Page 45
1 talked about, was the 369 and the 399 restaurants, the two
2 Colchester restaurants opened, I guess we could find the
3 dates out, but that would be probably a year or so -----
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5 Q. You need not be particular about it. What I am really
6 asking is whether there was a need within the McDonald's
7 system in this country to produce management material all
8 the time, particular people who would grow into store
9 managers?
10 A. Yes, there was a need to do that, both within the
11 region but we also exported -----
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13 Q. Just generally?
14 A. Yes, generally.
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16 Q. There was generally a need to find more store managers?
17 A. Yes, yes.
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19 Q. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Atherton.
20 A. Thank you.
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22 (The witness withdrew)
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Unless there is anything we must deal with
25 -- for instance, I notice on your list you have scheduling
26 -- I do not want to sit beyond about 20 past or 25 past,
27 is there anything which must be mentioned this afternoon?
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29 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I mention it now not so as it is
30 necessary to have an answer today, but certainly in the
31 hope of having an answer before the end of tomorrow, and
32 that is to know in relation to scheduling whether we are
33 writing in people we have put down, not the dates but the
34 dates are important as well, the people we have put down as
35 being the remaining Defendants' employment witnesses. The
36 reason I say that is, of course, one needs notice but, much
37 more importantly, we have to schedule our own people.
38 Until we know which Defendants' witnesses are coming and
39 what dates they have been given by the Defendants, it is
40 difficult for us to do that.
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42 That only becomes crucial when one gets to Heathrow, I
43 think, which is a few weeks away, but there are potentially
44 five witnesses on Heathrow and we have to start trying to
45 organise them. My Lord, also, we have assumed, in the
46 light of what your Lordship said last term, that the
47 remaining Colchester witnesses for the Defendants are going
48 to come next week. Obviously, one needs to have that
49 confirmed because if those days are for any reason not
50 going to be used we need to use them for something else.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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54 MR. MORRIS: The Harrisons are unable to come next week. They
55 are investigating being able to come on 5th and 6th
56 February, which has been put down as Lamb only.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: They both come one day.
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60 MR. MORRIS: They cannot come on the same day because they have
