Day 189 - 20 Nov 95 - Page 04

     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Not necessarily; only the major points which
     2        you think Mrs. Casey takes issue with.
     3
     4   MR. MORRIS:  Right.
     5
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The whole point of Mrs. Casey, as
     7        I understood it from her statement, is to say that she did
     8        not get her job back when she should have done after the
     9        strike, because she had been involved in it.  That is the
    10        scope of her evidence.
    11
    12   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That may be of direct relevance to something
    15        you want to say about the leaflet -- because one of the
    16        allegations in the leaflet is that people are being sacked
    17        by McDonald's for union activity.  That is not quite
    18        Mrs. Casey's situation, the situation as she claims it to
    19        be, but you say it is tantamount to it, because she lost
    20        the better job she had with McDonald's.  Now, that is the
         scope of her evidence.
    22
    23   MR. MORRIS:  Right.
    24
    25   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The scope of her evidence is not the history
    26        of the dispute and the rights and wrongs of the whole
    27        dispute.
    28
    29   MR. MORRIS:  Mr. Mehigan, from memory, had said something to the
    30        effect that the strike was over complaining about
    31        sackings.  He said that pickets had -----
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not mind you asking about that because
    34        Mr. Mrozek raises that in his statement.  By the same
    35        token, subject to anything Mr. Rampton says -----
    36
    37   MR. MORRIS:  I just want to go through it as I have planned.
    38        I mean, if there is any problem with any particular
    39        question, we can deal with it.  It is just that, otherwise,
    40        I am going to find it almost impossible to do it without
         referring to Mr. Mehigan's transcripts, which I have not
    42        really annotated.
    43
    44        (To the witness):  What was the strike about?
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just pause a moment.  Please sit down,
    47        Mrs. Casey.
    48
    49        You know, when I get to my judgment -- as, time and time
    50        again, I have tried to make it clear -- I am not going to 
    51        spend pages and pages recounting the history of the Dublin 
    52        strike and one side's account of it and the other side's 
    53        account of it.
    54
    55        At the moment, I am minded to think that its relevance is
    56        this:  it is a possible indication of whether McDonald's
    57        generally are anti-union; and, more particularly, so far as
    58        Mrs. Casey and Mr. Mrozek are concerned, and generally,
    59        whether people were victimised for being active in union
    60        affairs.