Day 161 - 24 Jul 95 - Page 45
1 MISS STEEL: Yes. I am talking about what happened after that,
2 when she brought in the new system.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Ask her if it worked after that.
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6 MISS STEEL: It is not really what I am getting at. I am
7 getting at training. I do not particularly want to give my
8 game away.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am sorry, time and time again you and
11 Mr. Morris have said you do not want to give the game
12 away. I have had murder trials where people have been at
13 risk of going to prison for life where counsel have been
14 less guarded about their approach in cross-examination.
15 One has to have a bit of robustness to it and not skirt all
16 the way round questions before you come to the point.
17 I really think you could put the point you have in mind to
18 Miss Anteneh straightaway, and you should do so.
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20 MS. STEEL: I am not skirting around the question. I am trying
21 to get background information before I put a point which
22 then turns out to be completely incorrect
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You just put it anyway.
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26 MISS STEEL: I will just leave it for our witnesses to deal
27 with. (To the witness) There were also complaints from the
28 crew that they were not getting pay rises; did you
29 investigate that?
30 A. Yes, I did.
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32 Q. Did you implement any kind of action to deal with those
33 complaints?
34 A. It is the same way it works as the training and the
35 OCLs and I was in charge of it, allocating people every two
36 weeks who is due and distribute that to individual Managers
37 to do it and collect it back myself, and distribute another
38 group of them back to their Managers. So that way
39 I managed to get all the due performance reviews done in
40 time.
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42 Q. How long had you been at the Strand store when the filming
43 started taking place?
44 A. Three years.
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46 Q. About three years?
47 A. Yes.
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49 Q. Right, but not all that time as the Manager?
50 A. No.
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52 Q. How long had you been the Manager before the filming
53 started?
54 A. Two months.
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56 Q. Two months. What had happened to the previous manager, had
57 he just left or been transferred?
58 A. He became a Supervisor.
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60 MR. MORRIS: Again, the rap session, the staff filmed, the crew
