Day 083 - 06 Feb 95 - Page 63


     
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     2   MR. RAMPTON:  I am still on day 70, and that was pages 22 to 23.
     3        My Lord, the next thing was the UK and US accident
     4        statistics.  I have got the missing bits, if I may call
     5        them that, of the UK statistics now.  I do not invite
     6        anybody to say anything about those at the moment.  Maybe
     7        it is best they consider them overnight.
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     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Where do these go?
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    11   MR. RAMPTON:  Mrs. Brinley-Codd will do a list of direction so
    12        far as that is concerned.
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    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will hand it back.  If Mrs. Brinley-Codd
    15        will be kind enough to write on her post-it where they are
    16        going.  I know I had a very short summary but I have
    17        forgotten which bundle it is in.
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    19   MR. RAMPTON:  That is right.  Your Lordship thought it was
    20        inadequate.  That was just an error because there had
    21        originally been three sheets, and now we have the
    22        succeeding two sheets which were omitted.  I should say
    23        about these UK statistics that they only relate to the
    24        reportable accidents, the Ridor statistics.
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    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The notifiable ones.
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    28   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I also have, and I would invite your
    29        Lordship not now but in due course to say whether this is
    30        sufficient, two sheets of statistics for the company-owned
    31        restaurants in the United States for the year 1994,
    32        breaking the statistics down (if that is not an unfortunate
    33        pun) into areas where the accidents happen and where known
    34        the type of injury.  It gives the total number in each case
    35        which is something similar, though it is not exact, to what
    36        was in those charts in I think it was the Operations
    37        Manual.
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    39        What I would invite your Lordship to say is whether or not,
    40        and I am entirely open minded about this at the moment, the
    41        statistics for the last year would be sufficient, given
    42        that they are going to be as the size of the operation
    43        increases greater in number, though it may not be in
    44        proportion, and it may be that it will be sufficient if
    45        I get somebody in the United States to make a statement
    46        saying, well, in fact they bear about the same proportion
    47        to the number of employees overall as they have for the
    48        last five years or whatever, rather than putting somebody
    49        to the task of doing the same job for a series of years.
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    51        My Lord, your Lordship did say on that day, Day 70 last 
    52        year, 20th December last year, that the statement of 
    53        Ms. Link, the paper-making expert for the Defendants,
    54        should be served by 31st January.  We have not seen any
    55        sign of that yet.  I just wonder what is happening about
    56        that.  Maybe that is something the Defendants might like to
    57        come back to tomorrow.
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    59   MR. MORRIS:  We have a draft statement and we are expecting it
    60        to be ready by the end of the week.

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