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1 whether we ought to be looking at a high season month.
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3 MR. RAMPTON: I say straightaway that I have no objection in
4 principle. Mr. Logan was in the store in 1993, and I dare
5 say a number of these other people were as well, because
6 many of them, most of them, are long serving employees, and
7 six of them at least are still there. My only hesitation,
8 as ever really, is that it means another 90 or 100 pages.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I appreciate that.
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12 MR. RAMPTON: Particularly since I do not intend, unless
13 your Lordship directs me otherwise, to disclose the details
14 on the clock card sheets and the adjustments and the excess
15 hours of any employee other than those named by Mr. Logan.
16 So there is a lot of blanking out to be done.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, I would want to hear further argument
19 in relation to that.
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21 MR. RAMPTON: I understand that. Your Lordship says-- I am
22 sorry, I just meant that that is what actually Mr. Morris
23 has asked for, for the named people in item 10.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We will see how the argument goes. Let me
26 make a further note.
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28 MR. MORRIS: That was if there were separate cards for each
29 person.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Wait a minute. You will have your
32 opportunity to go through it in a moment. (Pause) Yes,
33 Mr. Morris.
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35 MR. MORRIS: The genesis of this application is that Mr. Logan
36 in his statement clearly identified what he stated were
37 general problems in the store -- common practice, in other
38 words like that, regularly -- and then on the phone the day
39 before Mr. Richards gave evidence, I said I have been asked
40 to put some names forward.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: In fairness to yourself, I indicated that
43 I was not very attracted by the prospect of ordering
44 blanket discovery on the basis of general allegations, but
45 I would think again if you were able to be more specific.
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47 MR. MORRIS: Yes. I mean, obviously, you know, to ask for all
48 documents for the whole time Mr. Logan was there would be a
49 different matter. But he was making allegations that these
50 practices were general practices and he, himself, had done
51 scheduling or run shifts -- or whatever he says in his
52 statement -- and, therefore, he is entitled to make those
53 kinds of conclusions. However, at the drop of a hat, he
54 pulled out some names on the phone to me. But they were
55 only examples of what were, he says, common or general or
56 regular practices.
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58 So the first point I am going to make in answer to
59 Mr. Rampton's point is that the general documents that have
60 been -- the documents have been applied for should not be
