Day 168 - 03 Oct 95 - Page 53


     
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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Mrs. French is up in Hertfordshire, is she?
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     4   MR. RAMPTON:  Sorry, my Lord?
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     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It looks as if Mrs. French is up in
     7        Hertfordshire?
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     9   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, she is.  She is at Letchworth.
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    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We will go on until about ten past or quarter
    12        past four.  I would like you to give me your best estimate
    13        then, because it seems to me that she could certainly be
    14        not before 12, and what we will consider at quarter past
    15        four is whether it is best to say two o'clock; something of
    16        that kind.
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    18   MR. MORRIS:  (To the witness) The grease trap dripping, although
    19        it did not drip on to anybody's person ----
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    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I would like to know just what the grease
    22        trap is.  For some reason I thought it was under the floor
    23        somewhere and it is clearly not that.
    24        A.  That is the grease trap.  He is actually referring to
    25        the grease trough in his statement, which it actually sits
    26        between -- where you have the bottom platens of two grills
    27        together you will have a trough in the centre which the hot
    28        fat and grime and carbon off the grill will go down once
    29        the grill is scraped.  That is -- the grease trough is what
    30        actually catches that.  That is all.
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    32   MR. MORRIS:  You have used the word "trap" in your statement as
    33        well as Mr. Logan?
    34        A.  I actually said trough.  I think in the translation it
    35        got ....
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    37   Q.   Right.  But, in any event, how long was that broken for
    38        approximately?
    39        A.  It -- I would say it probably breaks once a week or
    40        once every two weeks; there is something wrong with it.
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    42   Q.   That is the situation now?
    43        A.  Yes, I believe the Company has actually got someone
    44        working on a different design of grease trap made out of
    45        different material because, at the moment, it is made out
    46        of stainless steel and it is very rigid and it sits on a
    47        stainless steel set of hot posts underneath two grills, and
    48        the idea being that when you, if you move the grill even
    49        slightly then you will split a piece of the stainless
    50        steel. 
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    52   Q.   That is the situation now? 
    53        A.  That is the situation at this moment, yes.
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    55   Q.   That is the standard equipment in all stores at the moment?
    56        A.  In a lot of stores they would have that equipment.
    57        I cannot speak for every store in the country.
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    59   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  At the moment, Mr. Morris, I do not
    60        understand just what the problem is said to be and the

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