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1 trying to find what those areas are.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He can give evidence about them, even though
4 he is not responsible for them, if he actually knows the
5 answers. But if he does not know the answer and he says
6 so, the mere fact that he goes on to say why, because that
7 is someone else's responsibility, really ought not to lead
8 us into inquiring why that is so and whether it should be
9 so, because we have really moved well away from the issue
10 then.
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12 I am prepared to accept, unless it is shown to be wrong,
13 that someone who has an Operations managerial function over
14 a large area will get to know something about marketing and
15 the way it works and Human Resources and the way it works,
16 and so on, but on any particular topic he is asked about
17 may say: "I am sorry, I do not know what the position is
18 there."
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20 MR. MORRIS: Right. It is not an academic enquiry, because
21 Mr. Stanton has made a lot of very sweeping and generalised
22 statements about what happens at McDonald's.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I would like you to -----
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26 MR. MORRIS: It is hard to -----
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But then I would like you to concentrate on
29 those, rather than find one is steered off down a line of
30 questions about who did what. You did something similar,
31 if I can remind you, earlier in your cross-examination,
32 when you asked him about how he knew whether there were
33 lots of jobs available in Leicester. You have the answer
34 you wanted there; and I suggest you follow that course with
35 regard to something which you want to say to me in due
36 course was a sweeping statement which was not justified.
37 If there are a number you are unhappy about, then challenge
38 him and say: "How do you know that", and we will find out
39 if there is any basis for Mr. Stanton's assertions. But
40 take each of them head on, I suggest.
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42 MR. MORRIS: Right.
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you want the five-minute break now, so
45 that you can get that in order?
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47 MR. MORRIS: We can carry on for a while.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Right.
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51 MISS STEEL: (To the witness) I just want to ask you, in your
52 second statement -- perhaps you will want to get it?
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is yellow X, Mr. Stanton.
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56 MISS STEEL: Tab 34.
57 A. Thank you.
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59 Q. It is the second statement. You have given some
60 percentages of how much pay reviews were, performance
