Day 195 - 04 Dec 95 - Page 51
1 told me this. He did not give me any details. I do not
2 know who he was told by this" are not what you told the
3 solicitor, but the solicitor's record of, as it were, his
4 or her impression of your state of knowledge; is that
5 right?
6 A. It is very possibly true because the solicitors that
7 I saw for the second statement just saw me literally for
8 about half an hour to 45 minutes and they were not -- I got
9 the impression that they were not as well informed as the
10 previous solicitors.
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12 Q. I dare say. Can you look at the last sentence where in the
13 form I have it it says: "His hours were cut and he was not
14 promoted even though he should have been, and he left two
15 months later."
16 A. Yes.
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18 Q. Who is the "he" -- is it you or is it somebody else?
19 A. No, it is certainly not me, no. I was not that
20 interested.
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22 Q. Did the solicitor make that up?
23 A. It is probably he is confusing it with something else.
24
25 Q. You were telling the solicitor something you had heard
26 about somebody else, were you not?
27 A. Yes. I was telling the solicitor -- what I was telling
28 the solicitor what I regarded as the truth and he might
29 have confused the issue with another issue, and put them
30 both together in the same sentence.
31
32 Q. Am I right in thinking it was not you who was warning
33 against collective activity but somebody who told you that
34 he had been?
35 A. No, no. The situation was this. There were about four
36 people, three or four people, in the grill area and
37 specifically those people who were in the grill area, and
38 they were feeling very cold, talked to each other and
39 thought, you know: "We cannot work under these conditions,
40 so what we will do is to walk out and do not come back
41 until the conditions have improved".
42
43 As a result of that, we were given T-shirts to wear under
44 our clothes which improved the situation, but they were not
45 actually -- we were still not happy with the conditions
46 anyway. Later on we were told, and I particularly remember
47 we were not gathered in a corner in a meeting, but we were
48 individually warned against collective activity separately.
49
50 Q. You were only there, I think, for one day when you say the
51 temperature was too cold?
52 A. That is right, yes.
53
54 Q. Can we now turn back -- I am afraid we are going to do a
55 different thing now, Mr. Alimi -- to your first statement
56 to page 4?
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Have you finished checking where the
59 information came from?
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