Day 202 - 11 Jan 96 - Page 21
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.
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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?
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54 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord -----
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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
