Day 197 - 07 Dec 95 - Page 29
1 MR. MORRIS: If we note on page 7 at the bottom of the page:
2 "Overall, it has been a good year's work" etc. Then the
3 next end of the next line: "At the end of the day, it is
4 the money that we bank that is important and financial
5 control is your strong point". That takes us to page 1
6 which is the last PR for September 1990. If we note at
7 the top of the page on page 1, the last line of the
8 paragraph, first paragraph, it says: "Recently, the
9 regional target of reducing crew turnover by end of 1990
10 by 25 per cent was set by Andrew Taylor". I mention that
11 because it relates to Mr. Coton being talked to by Andrew
12 Taylor who what is clearly involved in the regional plans.
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14 Then on page 2 at the bottom, the last paragraph on the
15 page of page 2 before "Financial performance", it
16 says: "As you are well aware, your overriding aim" -- I
17 emphasise "overriding aim" -- "is to optimise the
18 profitability of your restaurant and maximise the sales".
19 Then it has over the page on page 3 his consolidated
20 budget and actual achievements for his collective area.
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22 I think that is that. I appreciate that opportunity to do
23 that exercise. I just want to see if there are some
24 questions about the statements that were disclosed. May
25 we just have a couple of minutes?
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do take that, but remember what I said about
28 that yesterday.
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30 MR. MORRIS: What did you say, sorry?
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I said yesterday was that you were not
33 to assume that -- whereas I said earlier that you were not
34 to assume because Mr. Rampton did not challenge matters
35 that he was no longer contesting them, because where he
36 has called his witnesses first and then you are calling
37 yours second, the extent of the issue is clear to me and
38 he is entitled just, as it were, to test the evidence of
39 your witnesses. But, in the situation which we now have,
40 where he is contemplating calling witnesses which I have
41 not yet heard whose evidence may relate to what Mr. Coton
42 has said, he is under an obligation to challenge the
43 essence of that which he disputes.
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45 I am not going to take a point if something is missed out
46 here and there, that is just litigation, but basically you
47 can count upon Mr. Rampton challenging that which depends
48 upon evidence which he would like to call in the future or
49 information which he has which has not come out into the
50 open from the witness box from a witness he has already
51 called.
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53 So you do not have keep putting to your witness: "What
54 you say about this? What do you say about that?"
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56 MS. STEEL: I do not know where the notes of Tracey Milleine
57 will be found.
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think they went behind her -----
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