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     1        asked me about the meetings; we just talked generally about
     2        Ray.
     3
     4   Q.   Would that have been about in November, something like
     5        that?
     6        A.  I would say late November or early December.
     7
     8   Q.   Did you tell her what you effectively said in the
     9        statement, that you remember one or two meetings?
    10        A.  I told her what I remembered, and then came in
    11        and -----
    12
    13   Q.   Which included that you remembered a meeting that took
    14        place?
    15        A.  Yes.  I recollect -- as it says down here, I vividly
    16        recollect one.
    17
    18   Q.   Have you been asked to check for any relevant documents in
    19        your possession or in the personnel department's possession
    20        about any performance reviews that may have been done on
    21        Ray Coton in 1991?
    22        A.  Yes, I have been asked to see if I had any
    23        correspondence or anything that related to that in my
    24        possession.  Unfortunately, I did not.
    25
    26   Q.   You could not find any performance reviews for 1991 for
    27        Ray Coton?
    28        A.  I have no documents at all left from when I was a
    29        senior Supervisor anywhere.
    30
    31   Q.   But the personnel department, is that the one we are
    32        talking about, in Birmingham?
    33        A.  Yes.
    34
    35   Q.   Where you said the performance reviews, a copy would go to
    36        the personnel department?
    37        A.  Yes.
    38
    39   Q.   That has been checked, has it, for performance reviews for
    40        1991 on Ray Coton?
    41        A.  Yes, my belief is that it has.
    42
    43   Q.   Could you explain how, or give a reason you can think of,
    44        that Mr. Coton has said he did not have any performance
    45        review in 1991?  This seems to be, in my opinion, borne out
    46        by the fact that no one can find any copies of these
    47        performance reviews in any of the places where you have
    48        said copies would be sent -- unless everybody has, by some
    49        staggering coincidence, all lost the same document.  Is it
    50        quite likely, from your point of view, that in fact there 
    51        was not a performance review in 1991 on Ray Coton, if the 
    52        documents cannot be found? 
    53
    54   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord -----
    55
    56   THE WITNESS:  I am pretty sure there was a performance review
    57        done on Ray when it was due; and the only reason I say that
    58        is that I had a very good system of ensuring that people's
    59        performance reviews were done on time.  It was something
    60        that, at every monthly supervisors' meeting I had, that we

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