Day 181 - 01 Nov 95 - Page 24
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2 Q. But you did not do it?
3 A. We did not do it, no.
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5 Q. The truth is, is it not, Mr. Pearson, that you did not
6 actually think very much of what Mr. McGee had told you so
7 it was not worth troubling about. That is really the
8 truth, is it not?
9 A. No.
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11 Q. Do you have with you -- and I am going to leave Mr. McGee
12 now -----
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Then we will break off for five minutes.
15 I may be a little longer than that, Mr. Rampton.
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17 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, yes.
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19 (Short adjournment)
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21 MR. RAMPTON: Mr. Pearson, could I ask you, please, to find --
22 I do not know whether it is still on the table beside you
23 or on the shelf behind -- yellow volume X which you had
24 yesterday? Have you got it?
25 A. I do.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not, unfortunately.
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29 MR. RAMPTON: Tab 7, please, Mr. Pearson, behind Lynne Mead's
30 statement, the document with a letter D in, I hope, the top
31 right-hand corner which is the table of reasons why people
32 say they have left which you looked at yesterday.
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34 MR. MORRIS: Sorry, it is the table of what the management say
35 people say they left?
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37 THE WITNESS: Is that this one here?
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39 MR. RAMPTON: That is the one, yes. Thank you very much.
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41 MR. MORRIS: That is quite important, I think.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let it pass for the moment.
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45 MR. RAMPTON: If Mr. Morris would like to make a speech, my
46 Lord, I will sit down.
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48 MR. MORRIS: No, I am just correcting an inaccuracy. That is
49 all.
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51 MR. RAMPTON (To the witness): Have a glance at it again just to
52 remind yourself, Mr. Pearson. Look first, please, at items
53 12 to 19, the specific reports of dissatisfaction, do you
54 see those?
55 A. I do, yes.
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57 Q. Perhaps you will take it from me that, according to this
58 record -- I am going to suggest in a moment why this record
59 may not be wholly reliable -- expressed dissatisfaction,
60 explicit dissatisfaction, constituted just over six per
