Day 164 - 26 Sep 95 - Page 08
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You might be right, but the time that it was
3 produced does not matter very much since they are there,
4 but that is consistent with having them coming into your
5 hands as Mr. Stein is in the witness box in June or shortly
6 before, is it not?
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8 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do not pursue that any further. I am just
11 getting the date.
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13 MR. MORRIS: I do not remember when Mr. Stein came into the
14 witness box. It was just before that time.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, employment?
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18 MR. MORRIS: In fact, just to digress, I think what happened is
19 that we got this one first, this -- I cannot remember.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It does not matter, whatever the situation is
22 with regard to Store Hygiene, which you say you think you
23 served in March 1995, it looks to me as if you did not get
24 the child labour law printout until June 1995.
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26 MR. MORRIS: Yes. I cannot remember now.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think you may be wrong about March 1995
29 because on the -- no, you may be right about the Store
30 Hygiene printout because that did not include the
31 Washington DC thing. It looks as if you got the Washington
32 DC thing sometime in June and you have, therefore, included
33 that as the last item in your list of proposed amendments
34 in relation to Store Hygiene. But it is probably neither
35 here nor there at the end of the day.
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37 MR. MORRIS: I do not honestly know. I cannot remember exactly.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, employment conditions?
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41 MR. MORRIS: Employment conditions: I was going to respond from
42 memory what Mr. Rampton said, but I have forgotten a lot.
43 I have made a few notes. Mr. Rampton said something about
44 that it was put to Mr. Stein that he did not know anything
45 about these allegations. I do not see what relevance that
46 has. That is exactly the reason, therefore, that it was
47 important they were pleaded and there can be proper
48 consideration by the parties, and an admission from the
49 Plaintiffs they they are, indeed, true.
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51 One of the allegations in the fact sheet is about
52 McDonald's, and something that has come up in all the
53 evidence on the employment issue, the employment of very
54 young people and McDonald's relying on, I think there is a
55 phrase about, profits based upon the labour of young
56 people. Here we have a number of clearly specified
57 particulars about the exploitation of young people, not
58 just what could be fairly called exploitation by employing
59 young people but also employing them beyond the legal
60 regulations.
