Day 117 - 27 Apr 95 - Page 23
1 mean?
2 A. That is end of the 12th month of 1992. So, this is the
3 consolidated P & L for the Company for 1992.
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5 Q. For the whole year?
6 A. For the whole year.
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8 MR. MORRIS: Can I just ask about this document? It seems like
9 it is two pages -- it seems like there are two pages. I do
10 not know if we have the same or it is an incorrect
11 photocopy or what, because the one on the left-hand side is
12 incomplete. Does anybody know?
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Perhaps we had better know the provenance of
15 the document and whether it is a complete or what,
16 Mr. Rampton.
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18 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I only have a single sheet so I cannot
19 help Mr. Morris.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL (To the witness): Is this familiar to you?
22 A. Yes, it is, my Lord.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You can still be asked then.
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26 MR. RAMPTON: Tell his Lordship what it is, I mean, where it
27 comes from.
28 A. Yes, this is an extract from the final P & L for the
29 Company at 31st December 1992.
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31 Q. "P & L" means "profit and loss", does it?
32 A. P & L means profit and loss, sorry, yes. The blank
33 above would contain the cost of the food that we have sold.
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The?
36 A. The cost of the food that we have sold. Then
37 underneath, the rest of it, would be all the other costs of
38 running the industry.
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40 Q. So you start with an item which is 1, whatever that is, and
41 an item which is 2, whatever that is?
42 A. Yes, that is right.
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44 Q. Then when you get down to 21 under the heading of
45 "Controllable expenses" you have got ---
46 A. These four items.
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48 Q. -- four items which relate to pay?
49 A. That is right, my Lord.
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51 MR. MORRIS: Can someone just ask Mr. Nicholson what the
52 left-hand side of the page is as well because that is
53 slightly obscured?
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55 MR. RAMPTON: It says "date" and "time".
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is it that you do not have or think you
58 do not have, Mr. Morris?
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60 MR. MORRIS: It does not say exactly what the figures on the
