Day 172 - 12 Oct 95 - Page 52
1 Heading: "Chemicals. There were chemicals for washing
2 up. There was a special liquid for cleaning stainless
3 steel. This was also used for cleaning the diffusers for
4 the lights. I don't remember what it was called.
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6 I can't remember the names of anyone who got skin rashes.
7 It was reported to management but I can't remember to
8 whom."
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10 Heading: "Calculation of revenue every hour. I don't know
11 anything about this."
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13 Heading: "Levels of takings. The takings at the Marble
14 Arch branch never fell."
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16 Heading: "New staff and falling sales. I don't know
17 anything about whether this happened or not."
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19 Heading: "Hostility to Trade Unions. This matter was
20 never brought up and I had no individual instances of
21 hostility to Trade Unions."
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23 Heading: "Repercussions on complaints. There was only one
24 rap session whilst I was there. I don't remember any
25 repercussions of any complaints being made."
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27 Heading: "Discrimination against Trade Unionists. I don't
28 remember any such discrimination."
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30 That completes the statement.
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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34 MR. MORRIS: The next one was Dave McGee, which is a very long
35 one and ----
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us see what else we can ----
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39 MR. MORRIS: There are some smaller ones. Connor McCann is the
40 next one I have got down after that one, which is
41 number 6. It might be good to read that one out.
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43 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I am -- only partly because I find a bit
44 of variety helps keep one alert -- it may help for the
45 future if I say what, in principle -- I will not need go
46 through the McGee statement now so the Defendants can think
47 about it -- what my problem with the McGee statement is it
48 contains, I do not know, an enormous amount of hearsay;
49 much of it I would think was unobjectionable and,
50 therefore, admissible because it explains McGee's reasons
51 for doing what he said he did. What, of course, it does
52 not do, that hearsay, and cannot do, is prove the truth of
53 what other people said to him which he says prompted him to
54 do what he did.
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56 That is quite an important distinction because there will
57 be some passages in the McGee statement to which I take no
58 objection whatever, though they are stuffed with hearsay,
59 because it is quite clear that what Mr. McGee is doing is
60 giving an account of the reasons why he did what he did,
