Day 207 - 23 Jan 96 - Page 28
1 days. I mean, is Saturday peculiar in this respect or does
2 it happen on other days as well?
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4 MR. MORRIS: Yes. Just, if it helps the court to say that the
5 following Saturday, if it is a Saturday, the one that is
6 dated the 15th at the top -- yes, it is Saturday that is
7 being recorded. Pages 331 to 334 exhibit actually the same
8 problems as the ones we have looked at in many respects.
9 In one case in page 3 -----
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There is no need to go into it. I am quite
12 prepared to do a fair bit of research of my own, looking
13 into documents, but it helps me if you can give a thumbnail
14 sketch of what you say the documents show as part of your
15 argument for what conclusion I should draw.
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17 MS. STEEL: Mr. Henden, you were questioned yesterday about
18 performance reviews. Would you accept that in the rap
19 sessions that we have the notes for, which cover about
20 three and a half years, although a bit inconsistently,
21 there are consistent complaints about performance reviews?
22 A. In the rap sessions, there are -- can you point me to
23 which documents?
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25 Q. If you turn to tab 10 again in volume 1, and then page 190,
26 which is the rap session on 16th January 1992, under the
27 training section. OCLs are part of the performance review,
28 are they not?
29 A. They are. They form 60 per cent of the grading, and
30 40 per cent of that is made up of performance reviews.
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32 Q. "OCLs do get done, but only some of the crew. Crew feel
33 there is a need for classes to be organised to get training
34 up to date"; and then the -----
35 A. Sorry, which page is this?
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37 Q. On page 190.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I cannot read that. I cannot read any of
40 that. It is OCLs, is it?
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42 MS. STEEL: Yes. (To the witness) Then the final paragraph,
43 under the training section: "Frequency of performance
44 reviews is improving, but there is a huge backlog"; do you
45 see that?
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I cannot find a copy of that. Part of mine
48 is so faint, I cannot read it.
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50 MR. RAMPTON: This is the original. It is, I would have said,
51 almost uncopyable. I will pass it up to your Lordship, but
52 it is almost illegible.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause for a moment.
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56 MS. STEEL: Some people have not had a review in four months.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Pause a moment.
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60 MS. STEEL: Sorry. (Pause)
