Day 170 - 05 Oct 95 - Page 19


     
     1        but you do not remember anything about that?
     2        A.  No, I cannot remember this one.
     3
     4   Q.   The third one down:  "Top of cellar staircase, Simon Sykes"
     5         -- can you see what that says -----
     6
     7   MR. RAMPTON:  "Raining, slipped on wet stairs and fell to bottom
     8        of".
     9
    10   MR. MORRIS:  "Raining, slipped on wet stairs and fell to bottom
    11        of".
    12
    13   MR. RAMPTON:  "Grazed left elbow, bruised backside and upper
    14        left back, very large bruise" -----
    15
    16   MR. MORRIS:  If Mr. Rampton wants to interrupt
    17        cross-examination.
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  He is just trying to be helpful.
    20
    21   MR. RAMPTON:  I am only trying to be helpful.  It saves time.
    22
    23   MR. MORRIS:  Do you remember that accident at all?  "Grazed left
    24        elbow, bruised backside and upper left back, very large
    25        graze inside right arm above and below elbow"; do you
    26        remember that?
    27        A.  Vaguely.
    28
    29   Q.   OK.  Do you know how long you keep incident report forms
    30        for in that store or what the policy was in that store to
    31        keep incident report forms?
    32        A.  About seven years.
    33
    34   Q.   Seven years.  I think that is about it.  I think that is
    35        the end of the questions.
    36
    37   MR. RAMPTON:  I would like to mention one thing arising out of
    38        Mr. Morris' questions.  It may have been a slip of the
    39        tongue -- one does not know.  Mr. Morris asserted, as a
    40        fact, that there was some kind of claim by Miss O'Riordon
    41        still in being -- he used the present tense.
    42
    43        All I have (which is a document which post dates, I think,
    44        the signing of Miss O'Riordon's statement in this case) is
    45        a County Court summons making a claim in the Riley County
    46        Court on 21st June 1993, dated before or after the
    47        statement, I have not checked.  My Lord, I do not ask your
    48        Lordship to look at it; it is just this is very -----
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is there any point?  I am not interested in 
    51        any proceedings whether they --- 
    52 
    53   MR. RAMPTON:  No.
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  -- are going on at all, am I?  It does not
    56        help me.
    57
    58   MR. RAMPTON:  Not in the actual substance of the proceedings
    59        because whatever the County Court judge might or might not
    60        have decided would not in any way affect your Lordship's

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