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1 does is say what Gary Davies did, it would be a pretty
2 short report if that is all it contained. But what has
3 been raised is the possibility that it will say -- this is
4 just total speculation -- "He was cross because he had to
5 work 90 hours in a week; we checked this and, in fact, he
6 only worked 38", or something like that.
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8 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, we will look at that, that I undertake.
9 I will not say what I think the result of the enquiry will
10 be. If any part of that report still exists or is relevant
11 to the hours that he worked, of course we will disclose.
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13 Number 6 was the Operations Training Manual, the missing
14 bits. I promised we will review that, and we will. Again,
15 the same goes for Personnel Manual, a document which I am
16 pretty certain I have never seen; but, certainly, we will
17 look at that, too.
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19 The maternity memorandum -----
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. One matter I had in
22 mind in relation to Gary Davies is: suppose the answer is
23 either the report can no longer be found, it is no longer
24 in existence, or it does not have anything which relates to
25 the hours he worked; what form should your answer take in
26 relation to that?
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28 MR. RAMPTON: I hope your Lordship would accept it from me or by
29 a letter from Barlow Lyde and Gilbert. I really do think
30 that by now your Lordship ought to feel (and I hope does)
31 that where we have relevant material, or it is brought to
32 our attention that we have, we do disclose it.
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. I am not challenging you on it. I am
35 just asking for your suggestion as to the form.
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37 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I would suggest that -- she is not going
38 to thank for me for it -- in due course, at the end of
39 these discovery hearings, if there are any outstanding
40 matters, Mrs. Brinley-Codd will simply write her usual
41 letter, saying: "Here is what we have found that is
42 relevant. Some things we have looked at which were not
43 relevant, and some things no longer exist."
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The other matter I wanted to ask about is
46 what sort of timing, because it seems to me it is advisable
47 that a time limit be put on it or an indication of when
48 I would expect an answer.
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50 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, can we review that at the end of all
51 this, if your Lordship would not mind? Obviously, the size
52 of task governs to a large extent the time within which we
53 can do it. We really need to see what it is, at the end of
54 your Lordship's judgment, is the amount of work we have to
55 do. I am not asking for rules of time or anything like
56 that, but we are all quite busy. If we have an awful lot
57 to do, then I will need a bit more time than otherwise.
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Did you mean the end of August?
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