Day 203 - 12 Jan 96 - Page 44
1 I probably revised it a couple of times, in all honesty,
2 during this period. But one of things I used to do was,
3 I had a little dossier on each of the restaurants of
4 current issues, relevant information, and tasks and things
5 which I had to do with them or which they needed to perform
6 or comments that I had made; and I used to do that with a
7 carbon copy and leave a carbon copy with the restaurant,
8 for instance. That is one of the systems I had. So
9 different systems -----
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Might I suggest you give your answer quite
12 shortly? If Ms. Steel wants further information, she can
13 ask you another question.
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15 MS. STEEL: Did you consult with the Company before throwing all
16 these documents away?
17 A. No.
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19 Q. You did not?
20 A. No.
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22 Q. But at the time you discarded them, you still had
23 responsibility for the stores in that region?
24 A. No.
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26 Q. No?
27 A. No.
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29 Q. When you were Operations Manager, what region was that for,
30 then?
31 A. That was for East Anglia. It would have included the
32 Colchester restaurants.
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34 Q. So you did still have responsibility for those stores?
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He did from that time, yes.
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38 MS. STEEL: He was Operations Manager until 1994.
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40 THE WITNESS: That is right.
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42 MS. STEEL: And you said you discarded all the files several
43 years ago?
44 A. Some time ago.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: When you went to senior Supervisor, where
47 were you then?
48 A. Where did I live?
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50 Q. No. What was the area?
51 A. The same group, East Anglia. The move from Senior
52 Supervisor to Operations Manager was the same area.
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54 MS. STEEL: It was during your time as Operations Manager with
55 responsibility for East Anglia that you discarded all these
56 documents?
57 A. I think it was November last year.
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59 Q. What, November 1995?
60 A. No, no, April -- yes, November last year; that is
