Day 174 - 17 Oct 95 - Page 07

     
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     2   Q.   But they visited in this case in or around July 1979?
     3        A.  If that is what is in my statement, that is -----
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     5   Q.   You specifically say a date; you just included it in the
     6        middle of a paragraph which ends up with something that
     7        happened in July 1979.  So do you recall it happening
     8        around about that time?
     9        A.  I recall some complaint, but I cannot remember the
    10        details of it.
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    12   Q.   Did you employ a 14-year-old at one stage in or round
    13        June 1979?
    14        A.  Not to my knowledge, but there may have been, because
    15        I remember the managers were responsible for employing
    16        people in the restaurants.  I cannot say for sure whether
    17        they did or they did not.
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    19   Q.   So you would not remember much about the situation?
    20        A.  No.
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    22   MR. MORRIS:  OK.  I think we will leave that there.
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    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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    26   MR. MORRIS:  Can I say, as a matter of legal point, we did, if
    27        you remember, pleaded that originally, this issue, and we
    28        did not have anything to back it up.  We have since.  I did
    29        not want to replead it, but we put it to the witness.
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    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL: One thing which I might have to do at the end
    32        of the day is look at the pleaded allegations with regard
    33        to specific stores and see what evidence there is to
    34        support which of them at the end of the day.
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    36   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  The reasons -- I mean, because it was dealt
    37        with in Mr. Mehigan's statement, I obviously felt I ought
    38        to bring it up anyway.
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    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do not worry.
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    42   MR. MORRIS:  I just wanted to reassure you that any of our
    43        pleadings are based on reasonable belief.  That was one
    44        that was cut out because we did not have a document to
    45        hand.  But whether it is true -----
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    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL: That was one which I struck out, was it?
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    49   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, you struck it out.
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    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let me just make a note of that. 
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    53   MR. RAMPTON:  I would not want Mr. Morris to think that an
    54        article from a radical Irish newspaper is evidence of any
    55        kind at all.
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    57   MR. MORRIS:  No, but the point is, it is evidence of reasonable
    58        belief.
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    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What Mr. Morris is saying, if he had been