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1 relevant in any event, whether or not Mr. Logan had seen
2 it. Most of these notes I wrote were at sort of midnight
3 or one in the morning, so I may have got some of them
4 wrong.
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6 Point 6; now, this I cannot believe at all. My
7 understanding is that Danny Olive, who was a floor manager,
8 resigned, dissatisfied with some practices that were going
9 on at the store; and that was fairly recently -- this year,
10 it is my understanding. If his personnel file is kept for
11 seven years since he left, plus the fact that any complaint
12 would have to be dealt with, would have to be kept by the
13 management or by Head Office or Regional Office, and
14 Mr. Logan certainly felt that his complaints were
15 substantial, then I am as certain as I can be -----
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let me just remind myself of what -----
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19 MR. MORRIS: I think Mr. Richards actually mentioned it in his
20 evidence.
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22 MR. RAMPTON: Mr. Richards has seen it; we are looking for it.
23 It is not in Mr. Olive's personnel file. That is the
24 present state of play, and there is nothing more I can do
25 about it than that.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Enquiries are continuing about that,
28 Mr. Rampton?
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30 MR. RAMPTON: They are indeed.
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32 MR. MORRIS: Point 7, weekly schedules. The most suitable
33 representative period that I felt was appropriate was July
34 to September 1994, although if they are available for July
35 to September 1993, that is fine. If they are not available
36 for July to September 1993, then the July to September 1994
37 ones should be available. The fact that they were not
38 handwritten means that if they were done on a computer they
39 will be available. Mr. Richards, in his statement, I think
40 there was something where he said they were kept for
41 18 months. He did not say: "We do not keep them since we
42 started putting them on computer", because in fact it makes
43 even easier to keep it if it is on computer. So we have to
44 assume that what he said in court and in his statement is
45 correct, that they keep the schedules for 18 months.
46 I think he said on scheduling -- I am just trying to --
47 something like -----
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. Are you really holding
50 out for three whole months?
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52 MR. MORRIS: My understanding -- it would be helpful if we had
53 three months. The question is, if it is thousands of
54 pages, OK, nobody wants thousands of page. But my
55 understanding was that the schedules were something like --
56 they were certainly in single figures, and I thought there
57 were something like three or four pages a week, which would
58 only be about -----
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The difficulty is that, under the computer
