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1 toasters and blue parcels; do you know about that?
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3 MR. MORRIS: I do not think the toasters were specified as any
4 particular period. It was something that was ongoing.
5 From my recollection, Mr. Logan just says: "It was also
6 common practice for managers, including myself, to be asked
7 to fix electrical equipment, mainly toasters. It was at
8 times considered a laughing matter as we often found
9 toasters patched up with blue plasters." I do not know.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The irony may be that if your case were right
12 there would not be any maintenance documents in relation to
13 toasters.
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15 MR. MORRIS: Yes. Mr. Richards gave the impression that people
16 were being regularly called out to fix equipment.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What was the grease trap period?
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20 MR. MORRIS: The grease trap period -- I cannot remember how
21 long it was for.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Trough, rather.
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25 MR. RAMPTON: I think the evidence -- again, I am afraid I have
26 not got the transcript here. I think the evidence of
27 Mr. Richards was that the grease trough problem was a
28 continuing one and that he would have a problem with it
29 once a fortnight, or something like that. He certainly
30 does not agree with Mr. Logan's account of the matter. My
31 recollection is that Mr. Logan gives no time period.
32 Sometimes the problem would be that the seams would split,
33 the welded seams, and sometimes it would be that somebody
34 would bang it and it would not fit into the slot. That is
35 my recollection.
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37 MR. MORRIS: I cannot remember what the actual dispute is.
38 Mr. Logan says it was something that was patched up and he
39 had to carry on, and then -----
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: At the moment, the only relevant dispute
42 seems to me to be whether the grease spilled under the
43 trough at the back where people did not normally walk or
44 whether it trickled out into places where they did walk.
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46 MR. MORRIS: Yes. I do not think there is any dispute really
47 between the two on the general state of repair of the
48 grease trap, but I think what is in strong dispute is
49 whether the Plaintiffs, McDonald's, called out every time
50 the RCD system broke down. I cannot remember.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We have got RCD.
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54 MR. MORRIS: Yes, OK. So the internal temperature check book,
55 13, is said to be the same as the temperature log of the
56 freezers. So there is not much more I can say about that.
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58 On the service history file, what is in dispute also is the
59 chicken vats, that Mr. Logan has said there was a
60 continuing problem with the chicken vats; and in his
