Day 144 - 28 Jun 95 - Page 07
1 in their stores?
2 A. I can speak of the US. There are a set rules as to
3 soliciting or distribution of leaflets. They are
4 specifically set out by the National Labour Relations
5 Board. We have always been found to be handling that area
6 correctly.
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8 Q. You said about the UK Company moving on a little bit at the
9 moment. No, I will just bring up -----
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: When you say soliciting or distribution of
12 leaflets, do you mean in relation to union matters?
13 A. And other matters as well, and under the NLRB would be
14 union matters, my Lord, but there are various state and
15 local ordinances dealing with the requirement that you have
16 to have these kinds of provisions in order to stop the
17 solicitation by insurance sales people, book sales people
18 or whatever. So, there are a variety of different laws, if
19 you will, my Lord, that govern this area, both federal,
20 state and local.
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22 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I am sorry I have taken a little bit of
23 time. I had to find Mr. Copeland's statement -- your
24 Lordship may wish me to come back to this in re-examination
25 -- but I do believe that there is element here of playing
26 to the gallery. I have had a look at the paragraph from
27 which Mr. Morris extracted that one sentence. It is not
28 representative of the sense of the paragraph.
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is the reference?
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32 MR. MORRIS: I am not bothered about the sense of the
33 paragraph. I am bothered about the rights of -----
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am bothered about the sense of the
36 paragraph because it has been suggested that you have put
37 to a witness something in someone's statement which does
38 not actually reflect what the witness says.
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40 MR. MORRIS: What it says -----
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just listen to me.
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44 MR. RAMPTON: May I invite your Lordship to look at it?
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, we are going to look in a moment. The
47 reason we have to look at it is to see if that accusation
48 levelled at what you have done is accurate or not. If it
49 is not accurate, we can then put the bundle away; if it is
50 accurate, then Mr. Stein can look at the whole paragraph.
51 Is this in bundle yellow X?
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53 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, actually it is still in X. It will be
54 moved or may have been moved in your Lordship's case to
55 bundle XIII. My Lord, it is in your bundle X and it is at
56 tab 17 and the relevant paragraph is No. 12.
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58 MR. MORRIS: We are happy for the whole paragraph to go on the
59 record.
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