Day 208 - 24 Jan 96 - Page 19


     
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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just pause a moment.  What do you take that
     3        to mean?  I can see what it might mean, but I have to say
     4        it is not at all clear to me.  I suppose there is not much
     5        point in asking you, if you were not there.  Is it a phrase
     6        you come across before at all or not?
     7        A.  What, the "could use hours"?
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     9   Q.   Sorry?
    10        A.  The second -----
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    12   Q.   Can you turn out towards the court, Mr. Cox?
    13        A.  Are you looking at the second sentence?
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    15   Q.   I thought it was -----
    16        A.  I would ------
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    18   Q.   I thought it was the third sentence that -----
    19        A.  Yes.
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    21   MS. STEEL:  The third paragraph, second sentence?
    22        A.  "Can use hours as a...."
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    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Sorry, which page are you on?
    25        A.  195.
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    27   MS. STEEL:   195.
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    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is the third paragraph or sentence under
    30        "Sean Richards".
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    32   MS. STEEL:  It is the third paragraph, but it is the second
    33        sentence of the third paragraph.
    34        A.  It starts: "Can use hours" -- I cannot read the next
    35        bit.
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    37   MR. MORRIS:  "Scheduled to advantage".
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    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  I take it all together to try to get
    40        what the meaning might be.
    41        A.  I have not any experience of it, but I understand what
    42        the sentence could mean:  if he was unhappy with somebody
    43        for whatever reason, he could schedule them hours that
    44        were, perhaps, unsocial.
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    46   Q.   That is how you -----
    47        A.  That is how I would read it.  I do not necessarily
    48        agree with it, but .....
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    50   MS. STEEL:  You have generally been someone who has been asking 
    51        to work quite a lot of hours anyway, are you not? 
    52        A.  Yes. 
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    54   Q.   Have you ever been in charge of scheduling?
    55        A.  No, so I do not understand the mechanisms behind it.
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    57   MS. STEEL:  Can I just ask something:  where a witness has just
    58        said he has not seen or heard of other crew experiencing
    59        any particular thing, that is not evidence, is it, that it
    60        did not happen?

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