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     1        might be the most productive way of approaching her
     2        evidence.  Then if, at the end of the day, you want to ask
     3        her about the circumstances of her dismissal because you
     4        think it underlines her evidence in some particular way, go
     5        on to that.  If you want to ask her from documents which we
     6        have got from Jarretts:  "It looks as if samples were taken
     7        for E.coli once a month; if that were so, would that be
     8        satisfactory?"  I do not know whether Ms. Hovi would be,
     9        but that is another sort of route you could take.
    10
    11   MR. MORRIS: There is one qualification as far as common ground.
    12        I do not believe we accept that the majority of organisms
    13        are necessarily spoilage.
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Very well.  Then ask Ms. Hovi about that
    16        because let us hear what she has to say about that.
    17
    18   MR. MORRIS:  If we can ask you about that now then?  I have a
    19        plan of questioning.  Rather than going through the
    20        statement point by point, I was going to go through the
         floor plan and things will crop up as we go through the
    22        line, if that is helpful.
    23
    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You take your own course, but that is my
    25        suggestion how, at the end of the day, you would have got
    26        all your evidence in.
    27
    28   MR. MORRIS:  (To the witness)  Have you the plan of Jarretts?
    29        A.  Where do I find that?
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you look in yellow volume VII.
    32
    33   MR. RAMPTON:  I think actually it is in yellow IX, tab 9, behind
    34        Mr. Walker's statement.
    35
    36   MR. MORRIS:  I have a spare.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you turn to tab 9, there should be one
    39        there.  Do you have that right at the back just before 9A?
    40        A.  No. (Handed).
    41
    42   MR. MORRIS:  This is where you worked, yes?
    43        A.  Yes.
    44
    45   Q.   Can I just ask you before we get on to the body of the
    46        plant, before the animals are killed, do you know if
    47        electric prods or goads were used?
    48        A.  Yes, they were used.
    49
    50   Q.   They were used? 
    51        A.  Yes. 
    52 
    53   Q.   What was the throughput of the plant?
    54        A.  Well, during the time I was there, perhaps I have to
    55        explain a little bit of background again, to say that
    56        during April the spring lambs have not come to the market,
    57        yet.  It is too early for those.  Usually, abattoirs do not
    58        slaughter very many lambs as Jarretts would normally do.
    59        They would normally slaughter 900 sheep in the morning to
    60        start with.  They did not do that in April hardly at all,