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     1        against the Childrens Act 1972?
     2        A.  Yes.
     3
     4   Q.   You know that happened?
     5        A.  Yes.
     6
     7   Q.   Following that conviction, what action was taken against
     8        the management in that store or against anyone in the
     9        Company?
    10        A.  I have no idea.  That happened before I took over the
    11        Personnel Department.  I know of the incident.  I do not
    12        know any of the details.
    13
    14   Q.   So, when you started your job as Head of Personnel, did
    15        somebody brief you on the kind of issues which were being
    16        (indecipherable) in your new job?
    17        A.  Certainly.
    18
    19   Q.   Did they brief you about matters such as illegalities
    20        committed by your Company?
    21        A.  Illegalities in what matters?
    22
    23   Q.   For example, were you informed about that when you started
    24        the job?
    25        A.  What, the previous convictions on juvenile employees?
    26
    27   Q.   Yes, or is that something that has only come to light
    28        since?
    29        A.  Oh, no, no.  No, I cannot remember what I was told
    30        about it but I was told about it.  I knew about it.
    31
    32   Q.   But did you ever enquire as to what action was taken?
    33        A.  No.
    34
    35   Q.   You never enquired?
    36        A.  No.
    37
    38   Q.   When you took over responsibility for personnel matters for
    39        Ireland in 1985, some time in 1985 ---
    40        A.  It would be somewhere round there.
    41
    42   Q.   -- yes, were you aware of the strike that happened in 1979
    43        in Ireland?
    44        A.  I do not think I would know any detail about that until
    45        I went on my first trip to Ireland and talked to Michael
    46        Meagan whom I had never met -- no, I beg your pardon.  I
    47        had met him, but I did not know him well as I do now.
    48
    49   Q.   Were you aware of the Labour Board ruling in favour of the
    50        strikers at the end of that strike? 
    51 
    52   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, this is really a very dodgy exercise, if 
    53        I may say so.  Mr. Morris extracts one piece of information
    54        from an absolute welter of facts, all of which is in the
    55        files.  The better question might be to ask him what he
    56        does actually know about it.  I really do not  -----
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just tell me where you are going in relation
    59        to this.
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