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                                            SEMIR KHAZNA, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1        A.  I really could not answer that.  It depends on the
     2        structure.  There are area Managers and there are General
     3        Managers now, and there are Ops consultants.
     4
     5   Q.   Do not Area Supervisors talk to each other informally and
     6        chat about what is going on in their region?
     7        A.  I do not talk to every Area Manager.  I might know some
     8        of them by face, but I do not know everybody.
     9
    10   Q.   Everybody keeps themselves to themselves, do they?
    11        A.  I generally stick to my own group, consult within my
    12        own region, because I am London North.
    13
    14   Q.   It is a useful line of questioning.  You do not sit in the
    15        canteen and talk to other people in the same position as
    16        you in the Company: "How are you getting on in your area?
    17        Have you got any" -----
    18        A.  When I go to the canteen, I like to go with people that
    19        I know, so we sit and we have something to eat.  I tend to
    20        go to the canteen with another Area Manager from my own
    21        group or maybe with my senior.
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You seep saying Area Manager.  Is that Area
    24        Supervisor?
    25        A.  Yes, sorry; that is correct, yes.
    26
    27   Q.   I mean, they interchangeable to you, are they?
    28        A.  Area Manager is -- sorry, an Area Manager and Area
    29        Supervisor is the same; correct.
    30
    31   MS. STEEL:  When you took over as Supervisor for the Heathrow
    32        restaurant, or including the Heathrow restaurant, you were
    33        brought in especially to deal with the problems that were
    34        being encountered at the store?
    35        A.  Initially, I was consulted by my senior; yes, that is
    36        correct.
    37
    38   Q.   These were problems that had occurred when Mark Riley was
    39        the Manager -- because that was when you took over?
    40        A.  Sorry, can you repeat the question?
    41
    42   Q.   The problems at the store were something that had occurred
    43        during the reign (for want of a better word) of Mark Riley
    44        as the Manager of the restaurant?
    45        A.  No.  Most of the incidents that occurred were under
    46        John Nevison, which, in the period that I had, were not
    47        getting any better.  I had to put it right.
    48
    49   Q.   But when you took over, that was at the same time that
    50        Mark Riley got promoted from Manager of the store to being 
    51        the Supervisor? 
    52        A.  That is correct. 
    53
    54   Q.   So, the problems that were at the store cannot have been
    55        the responsibility of Mr. Nevison?
    56        A.  The problems at the store, my initial finds were, they
    57        were short of staff.
    58
    59   Q.   They cannot have been the responsibility of Mr. Nevison?
    60        A.  Well, when John Nevison got to the restaurant, the crew
 
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