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1 would review whose review was due and make sure that it was
2 done; and it became such a routine that every month the
3 Supervisors would know that those performance reviews were
4 carried out. So -----
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6 MR. MORRIS: So, how could you explain that there are no copies
7 anywhere?
8 A. I cannot. Well, I can explain where mine are, because
9 I destroyed all the documents when -- you know, it is a
10 long time since I was Supervisor, senior Supervisor there,
11 so I just shredded all the stuff when I moved on. Neil,
12 again, has moved on in the Company, so has no need for such
13 documents. So I guess he got rid of his. We do not have
14 vast houses where we can keep documents going back from the
15 beginning of our careers. The Birmingham personnel
16 department I cannot answer for. They should have it there;
17 they have not. Someone screwed up somewhere along the
18 line, I guess.
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20 Q. Let us have a look now. I am just going to look at a few
21 performance reviews.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Give us the reference.
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25 MR. MORRIS: Well, I am not sure. It is the ones that were
26 served, the Mark Davis and the Ray Coton ones. I am not
27 sure where they are kept.
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29 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I think they are in 10B. Mark Davis's
30 are at tab 33, behind his statement. Those are the
31 Mark Davis performance reviews. The Ray Coton ones will be
32 behind his statement, which presumably is the Defendants --
33 Mr. Morris should say which ones he wants.
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35 MR. MORRIS: The first ones are the ones that were the Ray Coton
36 performance reviews, on Ray Coton.
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38 MR. RAMPTON: I thought they might be. There may be some
39 general questions to be asked about them but, on the whole,
40 we are in the same difficulty as we were when on a previous
41 occasion Mr. Morris asked Mr. Atherton to comment on
42 remarks made by somebody else to which he was not a party.
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44 MR. MORRIS: Well, he has come into the witness box to make all
45 sorts of comments.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. But you really want to concentrate at
48 this stage with the Colchester evidence. You really want
49 to concentrate on what this witness can usefully give in
50 evidence. I have got so much direct evidence, I am really
51 not going to be interested in this case in someone's view
52 on what might or might not had happened on an occasion he
53 is not involved; not at this stage in regard to issues like
54 we have got at Colchester where we have tight conflicts as
55 to fact.
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57 MR. MORRIS: You have said that you rely in part on -----
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Why do you not put what the point is you want
60 to make, and then, if you think that a performance review
