Day 170 - 05 Oct 95 - Page 12
1 particularly until she heard the shout, but there we
2 are. Insofar as there is punch at the end of the day in
3 this, you say they were penny pinching, not paying her
4 full-time for a few weeks until she came back.
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6 MR. MORRIS (To the witness): So, Mrs. Norris, when you -----
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I suggest you concentrate on that. You may
9 think you have asked quite enough about it already.
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11 MR. MORRIS: When you exercised your discretion, as you say, to
12 pay her the money that she would otherwise have lost when
13 she was scheduled to work I think it was for two weeks, yes
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15 A. Yes.
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17 Q. -- did you say that she should be paid as a part-timer?
18 A. No, her scheduled hours.
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20 Q. So you said she should have been paid for a 35 hour week
21 for two weeks?
22 A. She should have been paid for the time that she was
23 scheduled.
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25 Q. Which was full-time so it was more than 35 hours?
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27 MR. RAMPTON: Wait a minute. That is two questions.
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29 MR. MORRIS: She already said that she was scheduled.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, because I wanted to ask a question about
32 that because I think there may be some ambiguity there. Do
33 you know where 22nd June fell in the schedule she was
34 working at that time?
35 A. No, I do not.
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37 Q. Was the schedule done weekly or fortnightly at Epsom?
38 A. A week in advance.
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40 Q. A week in advance?
41 A. Yes.
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43 Q. What you do not know is whether she would have already
44 known on the day of the accident what her next week's
45 schedule was?
46 A. She would have known.
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48 Q. She would have done. Do you know what day 22nd June was,
49 what day of the week?
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51 MR. MORRIS: We think it was in the middle of the week, some
52 time around Wednesday or Thursday.
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54 MS. STEEL: It is Monday, 25th June in this .....
55 A. It was a Friday.
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57 MS. STEEL: In the statement I think it was a Friday.
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59 THE WITNESS: I think it was a Friday.
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