Day 198 - 08 Dec 95 - Page 19

     
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     2   Q.   When you were working under Mr. Mark Davis' regime at the
     3        store at Colchester, did crew come to you and say:
     4         "Mr. Davis has been docking my hours"?
     5        A.  Crew would always come and say that there was something
     6        wrong with their hours.  I mean, it was an on-going thing.
     7        It would be, someone would actually say they were short of
     8        hours or they had not been paid correctly.  I mean, it was
     9        something that would happen every time they got paid, as it
    10        does in any Company.
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    12   Q.   Certainly, people make mistakes, particularly when it is
    13        done manually, about the number of hours that people have
    14        worked, partly often, is it not, because people forget to
    15        clock in or clock off, do they not?
    16        A.  They do, yes.
    17
    18   Q.   They forget to clock out for a break, for example?
    19        A.  Yes.
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    Q.   You say it was being done systematically in those days just
    22        as it was when you were Manager?
    23        A.  I was trained to do it.
    24
    25   Q.   Have you kept up with Mr. Simon Gibney?
    26        A.  I have only seen him once since I left the Company and
    27        that was a chance meeting that I had in Colchester.
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    29   Q.   What prompted you to give evidence in this case?
    30        A.  I was contacted and asked whether I would like to
    31        actually discuss certain things that happened during my
    32        time with the Company and it, sort of, snowballed from
    33        there.
    34
    35   Q.   May I ask who contacted you?
    36        A.  Mr. Morris.
    37
    38   Q.   Had you spoken to Mr. Simon Gibney at that time?
    39        A.  I had spoken to no-one about this case from the witness
    40        statements at all.
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    42   Q.   Yes, thank you, Mr. Coton.
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    44   MS. STEEL:  Is it possible to have a 10 minute break so that we
    45        can actually sort out whether we do need to ask certain
    46        questions?
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    48   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  25 to 12.
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    50                         (Short adjournment) 
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    52                   Re-examined by the Defendants 
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    54   MS. STEEL:  When you started as a Security Co-ordinator -- was
    55        it ---
    56        A.  That is correct, yes.
    57
    58   Q.   -- were you paid the same rate as crew?
    59        A.  It was -- I believe it was a higher rate than crew, yes
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