Day 121 - 04 May 95 - Page 58


     
     1        wore red socks on Thursday you would not be cross-examining
     2        him on, "Two Thursdays ago I saw you wearing blue".  It has
     3        to be of some relevance to a point.  If, honestly, you have
     4        forgotten what it was just move on to something else.
     5
     6   MS. STEEL:  We will check it over.
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
     9
    10   MS. STEEL:  How long are crew records kept for?
    11        A.  I have enquired into this.  The personnel department
    12        are now advocating that they should be kept for seven
    13        years.  What happened beforehand varied from region to
    14        region, store to store.  A lot of it depended upon the
    15        capability of the store to keep records.  Managers' offices
    16        are very small, and the current crew records are kept in a
    17        normal filing cabinet, a metal one, and to keep their
    18        current crew records available they tend to dispose of the
    19        old ones as soon as the drawers underneath are full and
    20        that can vary from store to store.  Now some stores----
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just stop again, because I do need to know
    23        where we are going now with the records.
    24
    25   MS. STEEL:  I would have thought it was quite obvious actually.
    26        It is about discovery basically.
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, but what about discovery?  What is it
    29        that ----
    30
    31   MS. STEEL:  About crew records.  For some amazing strange reason
    32        there do not appear to be any records of any of the
    33        incidents that we have ----
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Why not ask Mr. Nicholson about crew
    36        records.  Put the crew records which you have been told are
    37        not there and ask him if that accords with what he would
    38        expect or not, or ask him some question directed at a
    39        problem which you think you have.
    40
    41   MS. STEEL:  I wanted to know how long they are generally kept
    42        for.  For example, we were talking about Mr. Gary Davis
    43        this morning.  That was only two years ago and yet, you
    44        know, you do not seem to have any records on that.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So be it.
    47
    48   MS. STEEL:  Is it purely up to the local stores how long they
    49        want to keep the records?
    50        A.  No, as I say, the policy has now changed. 
    51 
    52   Q.   When did that change? 
    53        A.  I would think in the last two years that the personnel
    54        department have been advocating that all personnel records
    55        should be kept for a minimum of seven years.
    56
    57   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I am sorry, I must interrupt.  Gary Davis
    58        was in or around 1989, according to the pleadings; not two
    59        years ago.
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