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                                                                  DAY 213
 
                                            PAUL LEMAIRE, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1   Q.   They did not try and enforce it, then?
     2        A.  No.
     3
     4   Q.   Are you a workaholic?
     5        A.  Not really, no.
     6
     7   Q.   Do you know how to enjoy yourself?
     8        A.  Yes.
     9
    10   Q.   You do?  But having a break was boring?
    11        A.  Well, all I could do was eat, and then I would be bored
    12        because I do not want to do anything there.  I could have
    13        done some paperwork.
    14
    15   Q.   Nothing else to do?
    16        A.  There is TV to watch, chat to other people.
    17
    18   Q.   You lived 10 minutes away?
    19        A.  That is correct.
    20
    21   Q.   You could have dropped home for half an hour?
    22        A.  By the time I go home, I have got to come back.
    23
    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Where are we going?  Fortunately, the world
    25        is full of people who have different attitudes to different
    26        things.  Some people like work.  I can see that some people
    27        think that work is more interesting than what they would be
    28        doing in the other time.  You may have come across a
    29        witness who is like that.
    30
    31   MR. MORRIS:  As we are discussing this in a candid fashion, it
    32        seems that a new line has developed suddenly, which is,
    33        whereas before everybody always got their breaks
    34        entitlement, since we got discovery of documents from Bath,
    35        it now becomes a new line, which is:  "Oh, people do not
    36        get their breaks and they do not want them."
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not accept that they are just lines.
    39        Fortunately -- and it is one of the things which has
    40        enabled me to sit through the last 18 months with a modicum
    41        of patience -- I have had a great variety of different
    42        individuals coming into the witness box; it has been one of
    43        the few pleasures in the case.  What, at the end of the
    44        day, you are going to have to look at is themes you can
    45        get.  All I am suggesting is that you need not either be
    46        thrown or feel the need to challenge someone because every
    47        now and again you get someone who does not fall into what
    48        you say is the theme.  That is bound to be so.
    49
    50        This witness could be perfectly honest about liking his job 
    51        and wanting to go back to work, without in any way proving 
    52        whatever theme it is you want to put; particularly with 
    53        regard, I thought, in the case to crew who have not
    54        ascended to Floor Managers and did not necessarily see
    55        their life's work with McDonald's, but found themselves
    56        working there for the time being.  You think about that
    57        when you come to decide what comment you can make on the
    58        evidence at the end of the day.
    59
    60        When you do come to comment at the end, what I would like
 
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