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     2   MR. RAMPTON:  The issue is on the second page of Mr. Morris'
     3        handwritten note, my Lord, second paragraph.
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     5   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I think I did bring it up before.  This
     6        relates to paragraph 15 in Mr. Richards' statement on
     7        page 7, when he says -----
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     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let me just find it.
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    11   MR. MORRIS:  It is the last sentence in that paragraph before
    12        the heading Health and Safety.  When I spoke to Mr. Logan
    13        about this, he said that Head Office reports were critical
    14        of Bath PR practices and other practices which were
    15        relevant.  But the way I wrote it was ambiguous.  It looks
    16        like it relates to what I said about the memo.  In fact,
    17        the memo was about the PR practices only.  He said one of
    18        the store audits scored an F.  But, in any event, the
    19        audits were critical of Bath PR practices and other
    20        practices, and he had seen them, as far as I remember what
    21        he told me.  So, again, we are really in your hands there.
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    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you have any information as to how many
    24        Head Office audits there were, for instance, in 1993 and
    25        1994?
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    27   MR. MORRIS:  I do not.
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    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL: I got the impression that there were no more
    30        than, say, one or two a year.
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    32   MR. MORRIS:  That is the impression I got.  I cannot remember
    33        exactly.  I do not want to put words into Mr. Logan's
    34        mouth.  I do not know if performance reviews are scored
    35        separately or as part of a general section, anyway.
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    37   MR. RAMPTON:  No, they are scored separately.  That is why I am
    38        able to tell your Lordship there is no such audit with an F
    39        on it for performance reviews for either of those reasons.
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    41   MR. MORRIS:  The Plaintiffs cannot find any memo about point 5,
    42        so we cannot do much about that.
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    44   MR. RAMPTON:  There is none.
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    46   MR. MORRIS:  We do not know there is none, if one cannot be
    47        found.
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    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You see, the way you have expressed it is in
    50        relation to critical PR practices. 
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    52   MR. MORRIS:  That is what I was told by Mr.  ----- 
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    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I know.  But now you say "and other
    55        practices".  So do you want to enlarge that beyond PR
    56        practices?
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    58   MR. MORRIS:  Well, it is certainly arguable that if there was a
    59        memo from Head Office criticising practices that are
    60        relevant, in dispute, at the Bath store, it would be

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