Day 207 - 23 Jan 96 - Page 68
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: (To the witness) Are you staying in London or
2 travelling up and down to Bath?
3 A. I did plan on going to Chester this evening.
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5 Q. What is happening in Chester?
6 A. My girlfriend lives there, and I have made arrangements
7 to go and visit her.
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9 MR. RAMPTON: I will not be very long, that is for sure. In
10 fact, I think I have probably only one topic now that
11 I need to ask Mr. Henden about. If the Defendants want
12 another half hour, that is another matter, but if it is a
13 question of checking through and seeing if there might be
14 one or two questions, I wonder if I might ask your Lordship
15 to sit late today?
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us go on anyway until 25 past four, doing
18 your best to get through it, and then we will take stock at
19 20 past four and see where we have got to.
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21 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you have important things to put, then you
24 must have time to put them. If we can let Mr. Henden get
25 off tonight to Chester, obviously, we ought to try.
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27 MR. MORRIS: That is what I was concerned about, really.
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29 Just one question about the performance reviews. To give
30 you an example, on page 96 in volume 1, file 1 -- have you
31 got page 96?
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Beginning of divider 6.
34 A. Yes.
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36 MR. MORRIS: It is a very general question. There are a number
37 of these kind of documents in this file. Are these
38 generally accepted by the Company as accurate records of
39 someone's history?
40 A. Sorry, the employee record?
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42 Q. Yes.
43 A. After a performance review is carried out and a pay
44 rise is given, then it would be recorded, you know, down
45 the columns as they go and signed off.
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47 Q. So, it is sort of signed by -- as you can see, it is signed
48 by management. So this would be considered to be an
49 accurate record of someone's pay history and reviews?
50 A. Yes, it would be considered to be a record. It may be
51 possible that a review was done and not entered into or it
52 was entered into it and the review may have been lost.
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54 Q. Right. But the employee checks this as well, do they?
55 A. The employee would not check their personnel record.
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57 Q. Right.
58 A. Well, not typically in terms of performance reviews, if
59 a matter of discipline was carried out. You can get the
60 employee to sign on the bottom line to indicate that, you
