Day 148 - 05 Jul 95 - Page 17
1 appropriate circumstances, I think most lawyers still
2 approach the matter on the basis that, subject to there
3 being very good reasons, if you want to, if part of a
4 document goes in, generally speaking, the whole should.
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6 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I have taken the strict approach in this
7 case all throughout (because I think there are very good
8 reasons to do so and I have always thought so). So I
9 fortunately find that what I did, which is what I believed
10 was right from the beginning, has been validated by the
11 Court of Appeal, and I would, in general, continue to apply
12 the principle laid down by the Court of Appeal, wherever it
13 is necessary to do so.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You are going to think about it and look at
16 it and think about it.
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18 MR. RAMPTON: I do not know whether Ms. Steel has finished her
19 list on this particular bit.
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21 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Were there any points you particularly wanted
22 to make?
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24 MS. STEEL: Under Crew Scheduling Procedures, that is in the
25 Paper Work section, there is only one page of the Paper
26 Work section.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which page is that?
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30 MS. STEEL: That is bundle page 148, page 605 of the manual.
31 I do not know whether that is all there is. Then in the
32 Sales and Marketing section we have pages 653, which is
33 bundle page 149; we have page 653 to 656. Then there is a
34 gap. We then have pages 659 to 661 and I do not know
35 whether that is the end of it either. I think that is all
36 on that.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will take the five-minute break there.
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40 (Short Adjournment)
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42 MS. STEEL: The next thing is the personnel manual which I think
43 has been actually referred to by a number of witnesses, but
44 it is specifically referred to by Lyn Mead on 13th June
45 this year, day 134. It is on page 25. Starting at line
46 20, Ms. Mead was asked: "What is the Personnel Manual?"
47 She said: "Its full title is something like Personnel
48 Procedures Manual... and that is broadly what it is".
49 "Every store has one of those?" "Yes". "What is the
50 purpose of that manual?" "It gives samples of many of the
51 forms that are displayed, it gives details of guidelines
52 about disciplinary action, things like how to hold a rap
53 session."
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55 Then she was asked: "Staffing levels?" She said: "Yes,
56 things about recruitment ... and things like that. There
57 are probably other things in it as well." Then she was
58 asked: "... it is generally a guide on how to treat
59 personnel, how to deal with them, how to organise them?"
60 She said: "When you say 'how to treat personnel?'" That
