Day 182 - 02 Nov 95 - Page 16
1 Q. That is notice of dismissal?
2 A. Notice of dismissal, and the opportunity to apply for a
3 regular restaurant job.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause there. Yes.
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7 MR. MORRIS: That was distributed to all the closers; that is
8 what it says at the top?
9 A. Yes, I believe so, yes.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Mr. Holm suggests that they were not only told
12 they could apply for a regular restaurant job, but that
13 they would get some precedence in that. Does that mention
14 that in the letter?
15 A. It is mentioned as well, yes. The only problem -----
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17 MR. RAMPTON: This is really the difficulty. I mean, I am not
18 at all trying to be difficult, but I suspect that, as ever
19 in these proceedings, the wording of contemporaneous
20 documents may be quite important. All I have at the time,
21 apart from what the witness says from the box, are some
22 handwritten notes on the bottom of those documents which,
23 as is now apparent in this very case, is -- not misleading,
24 I do not mean that -- but it is wholly incomplete; and the
25 two things which are now mentioned are crucially important.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: To be fair to Mr. Jenssen, he volunteered the
28 first ---
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30 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, he did.
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- and was only too happy to accept the second
33 when ------
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35 MR. RAMPTON: I am not making any criticism of him at all.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I appreciate the difficulty. I think the best
38 thing is to go on, nevertheless; and if you choose to take
39 the opportunity of someone who can read Norwegian going
40 through them and saying there was anything in the future to
41 see whether it requires translation, then we will. The
42 alternative is that -- we do have Mr. Holm's statement.
43 The question I have just asked which elicited that answer,
44 I appreciate, is a question you might very well have asked
45 in cross-examination, yourself.
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47 MR. RAMPTON: I might have done if I had known the answer, which
48 I would have done if I had the translation.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The judge can always be braver about this.
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52 MR. RAMPTON: Exactly. That is the difficulty I am under.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Let us see how we go anyway, because at
55 the end of the day I am going to have to see how much issue
56 of fact there actually is between Mr. Jenssen and Mr. Holm
57 and the other gentleman whose name, is it -----
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59 MR. MORRIS: (To the witness): Is there anything in that letter
60 which guarantees that they will get another job?
