Day 207 - 23 Jan 96 - Page 68


     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  (To the witness) Are you staying in London or
     2        travelling up and down to Bath?
     3        A.  I did plan on going to Chester this evening.
     4
     5   Q.   What is happening in Chester?
     6        A.  My girlfriend lives there, and I have made arrangements
     7        to go and visit her.
     8
     9   MR. RAMPTON:  I will not be very long, that is for sure.  In
    10        fact, I think I have probably only one topic now that
    11        I need to ask Mr. Henden about.  If the Defendants want
    12        another half hour, that is another matter, but if it is a
    13        question of checking through and seeing if there might be
    14        one or two questions, I wonder if I might ask your Lordship
    15        to sit late today?
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us go on anyway until 25 past four, doing
    18        your best to get through it, and then we will take stock at
    19        20 past four and see where we have got to.
    20
    21   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you have important things to put, then you
    24        must have time to put them.  If we can let Mr. Henden get
    25        off tonight to Chester, obviously, we ought to try.
    26
    27   MR. MORRIS:  That is what I was concerned about, really.
    28
    29        Just one question about the performance reviews.  To give
    30        you an example, on page 96 in volume 1, file 1 -- have you
    31        got page 96?
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Beginning of divider 6.
    34        A.  Yes.
    35
    36   MR. MORRIS:  It is a very general question.  There are a number
    37        of these kind of documents in this file.  Are these
    38        generally accepted by the Company as accurate records of
    39        someone's history?
    40        A.  Sorry, the employee record?
    41
    42   Q.   Yes.
    43        A.  After a performance review is carried out and a pay
    44        rise is given, then it would be recorded, you know, down
    45        the columns as they go and signed off.
    46
    47   Q.   So, it is sort of signed by -- as you can see, it is signed
    48        by management.  So this would be considered to be an
    49        accurate record of someone's pay history and reviews?
    50        A.  Yes, it would be considered to be a record.  It may be 
    51        possible that a review was done and not entered into or it 
    52        was entered into it and the review may have been lost. 
    53
    54   Q.   Right.  But the employee checks this as well, do they?
    55        A.  The employee would not check their personnel record.
    56
    57   Q.   Right.
    58        A.  Well, not typically in terms of performance reviews, if
    59        a matter of discipline was carried out.  You can get the
    60        employee to sign on the bottom line to indicate that, you

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