Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 43


     
     1        actually joined in 1989.
     2
     3   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, may I say this, yes, the years are
     4        important; the reason is that, of course, we have the
     5        documents for your Lordship snapshot months in 1993 and
     6        1994.  I have done a lot of work on the basis of the dates
     7        given by Mr. Morris in that note on those documents.  I am
     8        not very happy if I am now told that the years are all
     9        wrong.
    10
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us waits and see.  Just pause a moment.
    12        What I would like you to do is just take a 50 minute break
    13         -- it should be long enough to get a sandwich somewhere or
    14        something like that -- come back to court at 10 to 2 and
    15        just sit on that chair in the witness box and read through
    16        those two sheets again.  Mr. Riley will open the court for
    17        you at 10 to 2.
    18        A.  Sure, brilliant.
    19
    20   Q.   Make a mental note.  Do not, whatever you do, write
    21        anything on the document.
    22        A.  Right, sure.
    23
    24   Q.   Make a mental note if there are any of the dates which you
    25        wish to vary.
    26        A.  OK.
    27
    28   Q.   Then at two o'clock you can tell me if there are.
    29        A.  Right you are then.
    30
    31                       (Luncheon Adjournment)
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  (To the witness)  Did you have a look at the
    34        dates?
    35        A.  I have done, yes.
    36
    37   Q.   Do you have anything to say about those?
    38        A.  On the second page of these two sets of notes there is
    39        -- on the first page, I think, as far as I can remember,
    40        those dates are correct.
    41
    42   Q.   Yes.
    43        A.  Yes.  On the Head Office store audit critical of Bath's
    44        PR practices, I think when we scored an F, I think that was
    45        when Alan Charlesworth ran the store; and that must have
    46        been 1993, 1992 and 1993, that he ran the store.  But all
    47        the audits, I think, all the store audits criticise PRs.
    48        I do think we ever -- I think I remember seeing a C.  But
    49        they were normally quite bad.  There was normally a lot of
    50        criticism of PRs, of the whole system of PRs, because it 
    51        was not being followed through. 
    52 
    53   Q.   Yes.  The thing -----
    54        A.  The thing saying "temperature logging kitchen
    55        freezers", shown not reaching correct temperatures, that
    56        went on from the time we got the temperature logs -- which
    57        I am not sure when, but it was around 1994 that we get the
    58        temperature logs -- and every day the chicken nugget
    59        freezers in fillet and pie would never show -- they would
    60        always show about a minus eight or nine degrees, sometimes

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