Day 153 - 12 Jul 95 - Page 37


     
     1        expected to work all night or perhaps one every two
     2        months.  Would you agree with that?
     3        A.  Two months, once a quarter, something like that.
     4
     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  When you say staff were expected to -- the
     6        question put is: staff were expected to.  Can you tell me
     7        again how many staff there would be on an all night close?
     8        A.  On an all night close, depending what needed doing,
     9        anywhere between three and six.
    10
    11   Q.   And on an ordinary close?
    12        A.  Four or five.
    13
    14   Q.   Would they very often be the same people, or would it go
    15        the rounds, as it were?
    16        A.  On any given night, it would vary.  Obviously, you have
    17        got a pool of people who you can schedule for a close, and
    18        it would be -- say there were 20 people who were available
    19        to work closes on a given night, it would be five of those
    20        20 people.
    21
    22   Q.   And the same sort of thing for all night closes?
    23        A.  They tended to be treated as a one-off type of occasion
    24        and, therefore, it certainly would not be the same people
    25        on an all night close necessarily the next time round.
    26        More than likely, it would be -- there may have been one or
    27        two people who were the same but, generally, it would be a
    28        sort of like a rollover effect where (a) who was available
    29        and (b) who wanted to do it.
    30
    31   MR. MORRIS:   So you are saying that the scheduling would be
    32        that someone would expect to work until 1 o'clock if they
    33        were on a close shift?
    34        A.  No.  They would expect to work until the end of the
    35        close has finished.  If that was half past 12, then it was
    36        half past 12; if it was half past 1, then it was half
    37        past 1; if it was 1 o'clock, it was 1 o'clock.  There was
    38        no specified time when it would finish.
    39
    40   Q.   If it was 2 o'clock, then that would also apply?  If it was
    41        for some reason -- as you said, on odd occasions it might
    42        have been even 3 to 4 o'clock.  Let us assume -----
    43        A.  Very odd.
    44
    45   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is not your case, though, is it, based
    46        on Mr. Alimi's statement?  If my recollection is correct,
    47        he uses the adverb "regularly".
    48
    49   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, he does.
    50 
    51   MR. MORRIS:   Yes. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is that right?
    54
    55   MR. MORRIS:   (To the witness)  No, but in the cases where --
    56        whether it is odd occasions or regular, whatever it was --
    57        the occasions when the close took longer, for whatever
    58        reason -- yes?
    59        A.  Yes.
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