Day 171 - 11 Oct 95 - Page 19
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2 MR. RAMPTON: The issue is on the second page of Mr. Morris'
3 handwritten note, my Lord, second paragraph.
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5 MR. MORRIS: Yes. I think I did bring it up before. This
6 relates to paragraph 15 in Mr. Richards' statement on
7 page 7, when he says -----
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let me just find it.
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11 MR. MORRIS: It is the last sentence in that paragraph before
12 the heading Health and Safety. When I spoke to Mr. Logan
13 about this, he said that Head Office reports were critical
14 of Bath PR practices and other practices which were
15 relevant. But the way I wrote it was ambiguous. It looks
16 like it relates to what I said about the memo. In fact,
17 the memo was about the PR practices only. He said one of
18 the store audits scored an F. But, in any event, the
19 audits were critical of Bath PR practices and other
20 practices, and he had seen them, as far as I remember what
21 he told me. So, again, we are really in your hands there.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you have any information as to how many
24 Head Office audits there were, for instance, in 1993 and
25 1994?
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27 MR. MORRIS: I do not.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I got the impression that there were no more
30 than, say, one or two a year.
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32 MR. MORRIS: That is the impression I got. I cannot remember
33 exactly. I do not want to put words into Mr. Logan's
34 mouth. I do not know if performance reviews are scored
35 separately or as part of a general section, anyway.
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37 MR. RAMPTON: No, they are scored separately. That is why I am
38 able to tell your Lordship there is no such audit with an F
39 on it for performance reviews for either of those reasons.
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41 MR. MORRIS: The Plaintiffs cannot find any memo about point 5,
42 so we cannot do much about that.
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44 MR. RAMPTON: There is none.
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46 MR. MORRIS: We do not know there is none, if one cannot be
47 found.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You see, the way you have expressed it is in
50 relation to critical PR practices.
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52 MR. MORRIS: That is what I was told by Mr. -----
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I know. But now you say "and other
55 practices". So do you want to enlarge that beyond PR
56 practices?
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58 MR. MORRIS: Well, it is certainly arguable that if there was a
59 memo from Head Office criticising practices that are
60 relevant, in dispute, at the Bath store, it would be
