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                                                                  DAY 213
 
                                        STEPHEN PLAISTER, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Which East?
     3        A.  Both of them.
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     5   MS. STEEL:   Both, what were they?
     6        A.  They would have been training squad.
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     8   Q.   Right.  At this time, do you know?
     9        A.  Round about this time, I would have thought, yes.
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    11   Q.   OK.
    12        A.  I have missed one off there, it would have been
    13        Lemaire, Paul Lemaire.  Shaw on the next page.
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    15   Q.   What was he?
    16        A.  She is a Floor Manager.
    17
    18   Q.   She, sorry.
    19        A.  Abbas.
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    21   Q.   Abbas?
    22        A.  Both of them, yes.
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    24   MR. MORRIS:  What were they?
    25        A.  Training squad.  I think that is it, as I can remember.
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    27   MS. STEEL:   Can I just ask you about on the first page ---
    28        A.  Yes.
    29
    30   Q.   -- D. Patel, fourth from the top?
    31        A.  That would be Davinda.  I did not know his last name.
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    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What about him or her?
    34        A.  I do not know.  I cannot remember the surname of that
    35        person.
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    37   Q.   If it was Davinda, what about -----
    38        A.  I cannot remember if he was a -- what position he would
    39        be at this time, if it was him.
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    41   MS. STEEL:  Right.  OK.  Thank you.
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    43   MR. MORRIS:  You said that when you were 17 you were always told
    44        to go home when it got to five to midnight?
    45        A.  Yes.
    46
    47   Q.   You have now a managerial position as Floor Manager?
    48        A.  Well, yes, seven days of it, yes.  It has only been
    49        seven days so .....
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    51   Q.   Right.  Do you think it is the responsibility of Managers 
    52        to enforce Company policy? 
    53        A.  Well, yes.
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    55   Q.   You said that you have never heard of anyone working a 16
    56        hour shift, and doubt whether it would be physically
    57        possible for someone to do so without losing their
    58        concentration and becoming a danger to themselves and their
    59        fellow workers?
    60        A.  No, that was the bit where I read about the 16 hours
 
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