Day 169 - 04 Oct 95 - Page 03
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What do want to ask about, Mr. Rampton?
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4 MR. RAMPTON: I only want him to confirm, my Lord, the second
5 one which has a date in early June 1993 was, in fact, as it
6 appears to have been, filled in by him. It has his name at
7 the top in the right-hand corner. That was all.
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9 SEAN RICHARDS, recalled.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL (To the witness): Is that so?
12 A. It is.
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14 Q. It is the second sheet?
15 A. The first sheet or the one dated ---
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17 Q. 6th May?
18 A. -- third of the sixth I filled in. The one dated
19 1st May was filled in by another Manager.
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21 Q. I have one which is dated at the bottom 7th June 1993.
22 A. Yes, the date at the bottom, 7th of the 6th is the one
23 I filled in and the 6th of the 5th at the bottom is the one
24 that somebody else filled in.
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26 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, that was all I was going to ask.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, thank you.
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30 Cross-examined by the Defendants, continued.
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32 MS. STEEL: Mr. Richards, you have got 90 crew at the Bath
33 store, you said. How main of those are full-time and how
34 many are part-time?
35 A. Around 20 are full-time.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: This is crew?
38 A. This is crew, around 15 to 20, yes.
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40 MS. STEEL: 15 to 20. How many of the crew are students?
41 A. What, the part-timers or the crew generally?
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43 Q. Would there be any full-time crew that were students?
44 A. I doubt it, no.
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46 Q. How many of the part-timers?
47 A. The overall majority would be students.
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49 Q. Right. Do you know roughly how many?
50 A. More than half.
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52 Q. So probably about 40 of them or something like that?
53 A. More than half, yes.
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55 Q. Half would be ------
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am very reluctant that we get to be
58 precise. If a witness says "the majority" and then when
59 pressed says "more than half", I am not going to attach any
60 weight at all thereafter to a figure like 40 or 45, because
