Day 122 - 05 May 95 - Page 05


     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, tell me about that one then.  How many
     2        other matters are there which were -----
     3
     4   MS. STEEL:  There is one more.  I will say that one first,
     5        I will lose my place otherwise.
     6
     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
     8
     9   MS. STEEL:  Under the first paragraph of Labour Costs between
    10        paragraphs 56 and 57 of yours, there was a paragraph that
    11        read:  "It is correct that managers are trained as part of
    12        their management training to control controllable expenses,
    13        for example, labour, the maintenance and repair of the
    14        building and equipment, promotion, food and paper costs,
    15        etc..  This training is general management advice
    16        applicable to all businesses and is common to all managers
    17        whether they work in the catering industry or otherwise".
    18
    19        The sentence that has been changed, it is back to paragraph
    20        25 where I was saying about things that had been cut out.
    21        Whereas the statement in the trial bundles says that the
    22        position is carefully monitored, in actual fact in the
    23        other statement it says that Mr. Nicholson and his
    24        successor monitored the position which, I believe, is
    25        different to what he has actually said -----
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Read the start of that paragraph in the form
    28        you have it to me.
    29
    30   MS. STEEL:  "Nonetheless, staff are discouraged from working in
    31        excess of 39 hours per week.  I and my successor monitor
    32        this position by receiving monthly payroll reports
    33        indicating staff who worked in excess of 39 hours per week,
    34        which position has been monitored since about 1986".
    35        I have read all of that out already but it does carry on.
    36        I will not read it again unless you want me to.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What is your concern?  I can see a concern
    39        that statements may have gone into the bundles which are
    40        not the ones served on you because, if that has happened
    41        elsewhere, you may be worried about what has gone in and
    42        what I have.
    43
    44   MS. STEEL:   Yes.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will take that up with Mr. Rampton in a
    47        moment.  Are you concerned that you have been put at some
    48        disadvantage so far as Mr. Nicholson is concerned?  I can
    49        see you might well be if the statement which had gone into
    50        the bundle had additional matters in which had not been 
    51        served on you.  It might be rather different if matters had 
    52        been cut out because either side, having served a statement 
    53        originally which, let us say, had 10 things in it, might
    54        decide that they were not interested in adducing evidence
    55        of two of them, so might say:  "Here is an edited
    56        statement, because we do not consider those matters are
    57        relevant and we are going to put it."   You would be
    58        informed then, but there might be no harm in that.  In
    59        fact, it might help because it would enable everyone to
    60        focus on what they did intend to adduce in evidence.

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