Day 118 - 01 May 95 - Page 81
1 Q. "Workers in catering do badly in terms of pay and
2 conditions"?
3 A. I do not believe they do.
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5 Q. You do not believe they do?
6 A. No.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What you are being asked is whether you made
9 any enquiry about any other other industry before you felt
10 able to reach that point of view?
11 A. No I did not my Lord.
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13 MS. STEEL: We will leave it it there.
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15 MR. RAMPTON: There are some things I would wish to raise at
16 your Lordship's bidding.
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18 Your Lordship asked me to give as accurate a prediction as
19 we could for the Jarret evidence. We very much hope that
20 we will be able to serve it not later than 2nd June.
21 I hope it will not be later than that.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is far too long. It is far too long.
24 I say that because last November, or whenever it was, we
25 had or was it just before Christmas, beginning December we
26 had Ms. Hovi, although you said that some of papers in her
27 statement were matter of expert (and so they were) there
28 were a lot of allegations of fact there.
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30 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, this new Jarrett statement is not to deal
31 with what is in her statement, it is to deal with what she
32 said in the box which was not in the statement.
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I appreciate that, but I have to say I am
35 surprised that someone was not proved about just what the
36 general situation was at Jarrett. When we were arguing
37 about it before you said that the witness they want called
38 was, and it turned out to be a gentleman who was called,
39 whereas I would have thought it is wrong to say none of
40 Jarrett's business they want called, it is who your clients
41 can best call. I appreciate if you can please them as well
42 it may be, but -----
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44 MR. RAMPTON: I cannot tell Jarretts who to provide as a
45 witness.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well you can -----
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49 MR. RAMPTON: I am afraid, but anyhow I am not really on that
50 question, because as I say -----
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52 MR. MORRIS: They can subpoena someone if they want to.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do not bother about that because it is quite
55 apparent that someone could have gone into Jarretts on
56 McDonald's behalf and really sorted out what the situation
57 was, and if Jarretts had said: "Well we are not too keen on
58 any of us giving evidence on that", the wisdom of calling
59 anyone at all from Jarretts could have been assessed, and
60 if you thought it was a good idea to call someone from
