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                                                                  DAY 214
 
                                           DAVID ROBERTS, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
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     2   Q.   Is it possible to generalise about the reasons why they
     3        went?
     4        A.  The reasons were from they were actually dismissed for
     5        a wide variety of reasons; some people resigned without
     6        notice; there were -- the discipline in the store did
     7        change and some crew did not actually like that, so they
     8        left and went to the Feltham store.
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    10   Q.   The beginning of October, the 9th is near the beginning of
    11        October, comes after the period when people like Mr. Beech
    12        go back to college.  Is that a factor in this or not,
    13        building up for December?
    14        A.  It was an on-going hiring process anyway which I always
    15        have in every store that I am at.
    16
    17   Q.   Roughly speaking, if you can remember -- I am not expecting
    18        you to do what one might call Mr. Memory tests -- by what
    19        time, by what period, date, roughly, very roughly, do you
    20        feel that you had actually had enough people to run the
    21        store as you would like to see it run?
    22        A.  By December, we were fine.  I mean, by October we had
    23        enough people onwards, from then onwards.  The exact
    24        situation that I wanted to be in was January.
    25
    26   Q.   Right.
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  By what time you had enough people?
    29        A.  By October I had sufficient numbers.
    30
    31   Q.   By?
    32        A.  October, to meet the requirements that I had set out on
    33        the schedule of how many people I needed, that I could
    34        actually do that and give everybody the hours they wanted
    35        to, and then by January I was in a position whereby I could
    36        help other people as well.
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    38   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.  Thank you Mr. Roberts.
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Thank you Mr. Roberts.
    41
    42                        (The witness withdrew)
    43
    44   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   So you want to get off?
    45
    46   MS. STEEL:  There were a couple of things I wanted to bring up.
    47        I do not know whether you have a copy of the notes I typed
    48        up of the phone call with Kevin Harrison the other night?
    49        I did put one up there or hand one up.
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes. 
    52 
    53   MS. STEEL:   The other things is, I wanted to raise about the
    54        thing about the Shops Act because we had a letter from the
    55        Plaintiffs yesterday.  I do not know whether you have a
    56        copy?
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have, yes.  I read it through quickly last
    59        night.
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