Day 119 - 02 May 95 - Page 40
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2 Q. Is that correct?
3 A. Yes.
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5 Q. The Personnel Department would have no need to keep them
6 after they had been checked by an officer from that
7 department; is that correct? That is what you said.
8 A. After they made whatever relevant enquiries were
9 necessary.
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11 Q. But the Operations department would keep that information,,
12 would they, on file?
13 A. No, I doubt it. It is an enormous document.
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15 Q. Yes, but a computer printout it is only a disk, is it not?
16 A. No, that is the way it comes out for everyone.
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18 Q. But I am saying the information on the computer would be
19 stored.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It remains in the computer?
22 A. I am not sure that it does. The only place could I
23 find it, my Lord, is in the Payroll Department. They were
24 only ones who kept anything for any length of time.
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26 Q. I appreciate there may be a difference between keeping a
27 printout ---
28 A. Yes it may be.
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30 Q. -- and have something which is left on the hard disk or
31 removed on to a floppy disk?
32 A. Yes, I have never pursued that.
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34 MR. MORRIS: How long would the hard disk be kept?
35 A. I do not know.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You do not whether there was -----
38 A. I believe in the affidavit my Lord -----
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40 Q. If you do not know, leave it there?
41 A. I am only thinking back to the affidavit.
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43 Q. Did you just work on printouts?
44 A. I certainly did.
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46 Q. So, you do not know whether there was a system for gleaning
47 information off the hard disk after a period, or putting it
48 on floppy disks, or anything of that kind. Was that any
49 concern of yours?
50 A. Not really. All I am going on is the response I was
51 given when I made the enquiry, that went into when the
52 affidavit, that they kept some crew payroll records,
53 I think they said, three years and the current year.
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55 Q. I am not sure we were turning our minds to whether they
56 were printouts or still on the computer?
57 A. That is what we work from, those printouts.
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59 MR. MORRIS: So the Payroll Department might keep printouts for
60 three years or something?
