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                                                                  DAY 214
 
                                           DAVID ROBERTS, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1
     2   Q.   Yes.  You said:  "You can put systems in place whereby the
     3        scheduling -- they would not be scheduled to an hour near
     4        there, so it could not happen".  So, that is 11 o'clock.
     5        So why did you not just never schedule any under 18
     6        year-old past 11 o'clock?
     7        A.  When I first got there or later on?
     8
     9   Q.   All the time.
    10        A.  Well, later on they would not be scheduled.  After
    11        I took over, there is actually a scheduling package,
    12        computer package; I put this schedule on to that so they
    13        would not be scheduled anyway.
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I thought you were pushing at an open door
    16        here.  I thought it had been accepted by Miss Moffatt and,
    17        in fact, by Mr. Taylor that it took him some time before he
    18        got enough people to be able to do it the way he wanted
    19        to.
    20        A.  In my statement I say that people were working over.
    21
    22   Q.   That is why I asked him about the third sentence in
    23        paragraph 7.
    24
    25   MS. STEEL:  I know that.  The point is that he knew that it was
    26        against Company policy and yet he was just carrying on with
    27        it.
    28
    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    30
    31   THE WITNESS:  No, I was -- the people were scheduled until the
    32        time before.  If I was not there and a Manager insisted on
    33        doing that, there is no way I could -- if I am not there,
    34        I do not know.
    35
    36   MS. STEEL:  You said this morning that you scheduled them until
    37        12 o'clock.  That is asking for troubling, is it not?
    38        A.  No, I was not actually asking for trouble.
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am sorry, all this is obvious.  If you keep
    41        asking questions about it, you give the witness an
    42        opportunity to back track.  My understanding at the moment
    43        is that this morning the witness accepted (and Miss Moffatt
    44        did as well) that he had to carry on breaking Company
    45        policy for a short period of time until he got the figures
    46        up.  If you want to ask questions so that the witness can
    47        reconsider that situation, go ahead.
    48
    49   MS. STEEL:   For starters, the witness changed his answer half
    50        way through this morning as well, because the initial 
    51        answer he gave was that he did schedule them until 12.00 
    52        and then when he thought about it twice he started bringing 
    53        it back.
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, I do not understand that.
    56
    57   THE WITNESS:  No, I said that later on.
    58
    59   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  He said "after a while".
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