Day 121 - 04 May 95 - Page 40
1 against the Childrens Act 1972?
2 A. Yes.
3
4 Q. You know that happened?
5 A. Yes.
6
7 Q. Following that conviction, what action was taken against
8 the management in that store or against anyone in the
9 Company?
10 A. I have no idea. That happened before I took over the
11 Personnel Department. I know of the incident. I do not
12 know any of the details.
13
14 Q. So, when you started your job as Head of Personnel, did
15 somebody brief you on the kind of issues which were being
16 (indecipherable) in your new job?
17 A. Certainly.
18
19 Q. Did they brief you about matters such as illegalities
20 committed by your Company?
21 A. Illegalities in what matters?
22
23 Q. For example, were you informed about that when you started
24 the job?
25 A. What, the previous convictions on juvenile employees?
26
27 Q. Yes, or is that something that has only come to light
28 since?
29 A. Oh, no, no. No, I cannot remember what I was told
30 about it but I was told about it. I knew about it.
31
32 Q. But did you ever enquire as to what action was taken?
33 A. No.
34
35 Q. You never enquired?
36 A. No.
37
38 Q. When you took over responsibility for personnel matters for
39 Ireland in 1985, some time in 1985 ---
40 A. It would be somewhere round there.
41
42 Q. -- yes, were you aware of the strike that happened in 1979
43 in Ireland?
44 A. I do not think I would know any detail about that until
45 I went on my first trip to Ireland and talked to Michael
46 Meagan whom I had never met -- no, I beg your pardon. I
47 had met him, but I did not know him well as I do now.
48
49 Q. Were you aware of the Labour Board ruling in favour of the
50 strikers at the end of that strike?
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52 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, this is really a very dodgy exercise, if
53 I may say so. Mr. Morris extracts one piece of information
54 from an absolute welter of facts, all of which is in the
55 files. The better question might be to ask him what he
56 does actually know about it. I really do not -----
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just tell me where you are going in relation
59 to this.
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