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                                                                  DAY 214
 
                                           DAVID ROBERTS, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1        just the premium time; but there were two rates instead of
     2        three.
     3
     4   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  If you look on page 81 in the Heathrow
     5        documents -- I will just check it with the previous one --
     6        and actually 77, also, which seems to be the earliest one
     7        -- hold on a second.  I am going from Mr. Rampton's
     8        figures on Mr. Beech's chart.
     9
    10   THE WITNESS:   Even in 1993, they were the same.
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I thought it was much earlier than that.
    13
    14   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    15
    16   MR. RAMPTON:  It is miles earlier; it is either late 80s or --
    17        I am just looking at the memorandum at the moment, my Lord.
    18
    19   MR. MORRIS:  I have it mixed up here.
    20
    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Your confusion is understandable, because
    22        although the two rates became one, they seem to have kept
    23        two separate columns but just put the same rate in there.
    24
    25   MR. MORRIS:  I have completely got the wrong timing.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It was a long time before, I think; and
    28        whatever the rate was, it covered what had been evening
    29        hours and had been premium hours; so you did not get more
    30        on top for the 11 through the night.
    31
    32   MR. MORRIS:  You just got the same rate as the evening rate.
    33        Forget that question completely.  I had a brilliant ambush
    34        after that, but it did not work.
    35
    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Anyway, that was a false trail.
    37
    38   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  We have nearly finished.
    39
    40   MS. STEEL:   (To the witness)  What hours did you usually work
    41        in the store?
    42        A.  It depended.  I do not have a set schedule that I do a
    43        certain amount of hours.  It depends.
    44
    45   Q.   It was just that I thought you said generally you were not
    46        there at the end of Mr. Beech's shift?
    47        A.  Yes; at the beginning, yes.  When I take over a
    48        restaurant, there are many things I need to get sorted out,
    49        and most of that, it is easier if I do it from the morning
    50        onwards, i.e. hiring and other things I need to do.  So, 
    51        initially, unless I was going to work through the day and 
    52        night, I would not be able to do that; and then as time 
    53        goes on, the shifts that I work, I look at different parts
    54        of the store and different day parts of the store, and that
    55        is when I work.
    56
    57   Q.   So, to start with, you were kind of working -----
    58        A.  8 to 5, that sort of thing.  That is an average;
    59        sometimes earlier, sometimes later, but mostly sort of
    60        8 to 5.
 
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