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DAY 214
DAVID ROBERTS, Cross-examined:
1 MS. STEEL: Right.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Then I can compare that with the oral
4 evidence I have heard from various sources and see where,
5 if anywhere, it takes me.
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7 MS. STEEL: OK. If I just make the point that, because
8 Mr. Rampton seems to be having some kind of dispute about
9 this, that even if we take the fortnight before, there are
10 still 118 people on the payroll, which is basically double
11 what the witness said in his statement.
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have your point. You say, whatever you do
14 with the crew total, whatever you do with the zeros, it is
15 a lot more than 60.
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17 MS. STEEL: Yes.
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19 MR. MORRIS: (To the witness) In the next paragraph,
20 paragraph 8 of your statement, you said that when you
21 arrived a number of crew members were working long hours;
22 and then you said you worked two 10 hour shifts, you and
23 Semir Khazna worked 10 hour shifts yourselves. You said
24 that this was due to the shortage of staff. So, the long
25 hours being worked were due to the shortage of staff?
26 A. Yes.
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28 Q. It is also against Company policy, is it not, for people to
29 work more than 39 hours?
30 A. I am not sure of the actual -----
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32 Q. We have seen a memorandum from Sid Nicholson.
33 A. I will take your word for that.
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35 Q. Under your management -- just very quickly rushing through
36 the documents -- on page 68 onwards, that is when I sort of
37 started calculating you being basically in charge, which is
38 from 3rd July onwards. Just quickly flicking through the
39 documents -- page 68: Noah 93 hours; Lemaire 94 hours;
40 Matharu 106 hours in a fortnight. The next page: Abbas 95;
41 James 113; Khan 100. (That is page 69). If we just move
42 on to page 73, we have got: Noah 103 hours; Lemaire 98;
43 Miah 97; Moffatt 103; Sean 97; and Abbas 106. Then if we
44 go to 78: Noah 98; Lemaire 94; Shaw 103; Abbas 100; and
45 the other Abbas 106. I hope we have done all this
46 properly, but just for a better picture. On 86: Noah 98;
47 Lemaire 106; Matharu 103; Shaw 100; Abbas 101. Over the
48 page: Yussolde 100. I will not mention all the ones in the
49 90s. On page 89: Shaw 102; Abbas 100; (inaudible) 101.
50 Page 90: Khan 102; Arlem 92; Yussolde 98; Singh 98. These
51 are approximate. Over the page: Kaur 97. We have nearly
52 finished now. Then 93: Wade 110; Miah 94; Shaw 94. There
53 is a couple of 90s. Then on 95: Owens 100. On 97, we have
54 got: Wade 94 hours; Lemaire 115 hours; Abbas 116 hours; the
55 other Abbas 96. At least three 90s on the next page.
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57 Just to add the last sheets that were disclosed about
58 Mr. Beech's holiday pay, there is also, on the first of his
59 pages: Alan 96; Lemaire 99; Shaw 106; Abbas and Abbas, 99
60 and 97. The fourth sheet in is: Lemaire 97; Shaw 109 and a
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