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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.
     5
     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 -----
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let me just remind myself of what -----
    18
    19   MR. MORRIS:  I think Mr. Richards actually mentioned it in his
    20        evidence.
    21
    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.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  Enquiries are continuing about that,
    28        Mr. Rampton?
    29
    30   MR. RAMPTON:  They are indeed.
    31
    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 -----
    48
    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just pause a moment.  Are you really holding
    50        out for three whole months? 
    51 
    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 -----
    59
    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL: The difficulty is that, under the computer

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