Day 170 - 05 Oct 95 - Page 07
1 this time you were Store Manageress, yes?
2 A. Yes.
3
4 Q. How long were you Store Manageress for?
5 A. At Epsom or ------
6
7 Q. At Epsom.
8 A. I moved there in 1989 as Store Manager.
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10 Q. As Store Manager?
11 A. Yes.
12
13 Q. You said you were serving at Epsom restaurant?
14 A. Sorry?
15
16 Q. You said in your statement that you were serving in Epsom
17 restaurant, serving what?
18 A. I do not understand.
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20 Q. You said in your statement: "Whilst I was serving at Epsom
21 restaurant between" -----
22 A. That means spending my time there, doing my three years
23 or whatever.
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25 Q. While you were serving at the store it is your
26 responsibility to know about accidents that occurred?
27 A. Yes.
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29 Q. Even if you did not directly witness them?
30 A. Yes.
31
32 Q. Were you informed about an accident where somebody's hands
33 got stuck on a grill?
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35 MR. RAMPTON: Is it suggested -----
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37 MR. MORRIS: A male.
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39 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, that will not do. Is it suggested that
40 that accident took place during the time in which
41 Mrs. Norris was the Manageress at Epsom? It has to be
42 suggested that it did, if we are to go any further forward.
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44 MS. STEEL: The witness can surely say "yes" or "no", if she is
45 not aware of it.
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47 MR. MORRIS: Are you aware of an accident where somebody, a
48 male, got their hands stuck on the grill and had to be
49 lifted off or forced off?
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Were you there at the time?
52 A. No.
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54 Q. What I do not want now we have got to these specific
55 matters is hearsay about it. The reason we have the rule
56 against hearsay is because information is very often not
57 reliable, and I want to stick to it. Get the evidence
58 together and if you want to call a witness whose statement
59 I do not have at some stage in the future, make the
60 application to me and I will consider whether it is fair or
