Day 122 - 05 May 95 - Page 45
1 MR. MORRIS: Apart from Executive meetings, do you have
2 interdepartmental meetings?
3 A. Yes.
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5 Q. They are formal management meetings, are they?
6 A. Yes, there is one held every Monday afternoon.
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8 Q. The heads of all departments come together?
9 A. Yes, the Executive head of all the departments sit
10 together and they examine policy ideas.
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12 Q. Within each department, say Personnel Department, do you
13 actually have sit-down meetings of the Personnel
14 Department?
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Where are we going now?
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18 MR. MORRIS: We are trying to see what the decision-making
19 structure is.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, if it is a decision, which is relevant to
22 the issues in this case, by all means ask it. I will begin
23 to regret asking for any further information if I think you
24 think it is an invitation to enquire further.
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26 MR. MORRIS: No, I did want to pursue this. What I am trying to
27 identify is which meetings the company has, how often they
28 are and what happens to the minutes of those meetings;
29 where are they collated and how long are they kept for,
30 because it is relevant obviously to our indications in the
31 past for documents?
32 A. The only minutes that need to be recorded are those of
33 the Board. That is a requirement by law.
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35 Q. Right, but --- they must be kept.
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37 Q. --- presumably Executive meetings are noted?
38 A. They are not strictly recorded as a Board meeting is
39 recorded. They come up with ideas and someone might
40 highlight those ideas and put them on paper, but generally
41 they are a meeting to discuss; so they do not necessarily
42 have minutes.
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44 Q. So the policy-making body of McDonald's Restaurants Limited
45 in the UK does not automatically minute its meetings?
46 A. Does not automatically minute its meetings. It would
47 record things they are going to process, that they are
48 going to progress.
49
50 Q. So minutes, or some kind of recording of the matters that
51 are relevant, are taken?
52 A. Sorry, repeat that question.
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54 Q. I am sorry you said if it was something that was going to
55 progress?
56 A. Yes.
57
58 Q. In other words if it was something that was relevant that
59 needed to be recorded --- examined.
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