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     1        that Mr. Shafibeik is sure about the dates of the first
     2        time that he worked there.  But he is not; he is not sure
     3        about any of the dates.  I think it would be helpful if, in
     4        the same way that the Plaintiffs gave us a printout of when
     5        they thought Mr. Jackson had worked at the store, if they
     6        could provide one for Mr. Shafibeik, or if they know now.
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will wait and see if anything -----
     9
    10   MR. MORRIS:  Can we ask the Plaintiffs now if they do know the
    11        dates?
    12
    13   MR. RAMPTON:  I am afraid we do not.  It is difficult, if people
    14        do not become Managers, to find out when they worked as
    15        crew, particularly as it is as long ago as 10 years.  The
    16        reason why I asked the question about the first period was
    17        that Mr. Shafibeik says in his own statement that at the
    18        time of McDonald's Freedom Fighters, Mr. Davis was
    19        Manager.  That helps us to think that Mr. Shafibeik's first
    20        period is accurately dated in his statement, because
         Mr. Davis was First Assistant.
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Where does he say that?
    24
    25   MR. RAMPTON:  Right at the bottom, in the last paragraph.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The Assistant Manager?
    28
    29   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, Assistant.  He did not become Manager until
    30        1st November 1984, which makes one think that the dates
    31        given for the first period in the statement are likely to
    32        be something like right.
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That may be so, but it happened at a period,
    35        according to Mr. Shafibeik's evidence, when Mark Davis is
    36        Assistant Manager, because it was Mark Davis who warned
    37        him.
    38
    39   MR. RAMPTON:  That is right.
    40
    MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The dates which he gives, having said that he
    42        is not sure about the dates for his first period, between
    43        July and September 1984, are when Mark Davis was First
    44        Assistant, and the July 1984 is the time when Mr. Coton
    45        actually joined.  He joined that month.
    46
    47   MR. RAMPTON:  That is right; and, of course, what Mr. Shafibeik
    48        has given as the timing of the McDonald's Freedom Fighters
    49        incident accords with what Mr. Coton told your Lordship in
    50        evidence. 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  We will see where that takes us. 
    53
    54                      Re-examined by the Defendants
    55
    56   MS. STEEL:   I do not actually know the answer to this question,
    57        but I just wanted to clarify something.  When you say that
    58        Mark Davis was the Assistant Manager, do you know for sure
    59        that that was the case or is that what you think you
    60        remember?