Day 203 - 12 Jan 96 - Page 18
1 MR. RAMPTON: Under "Conclusions", there is a section which
2 starts with "Previous goals and objectives".
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4 MR. MORRIS: His goal is identified as being to achieve no Bs or
5 Cs, i.e. set a goal -----
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am sorry. We have left Mr. Skehel out of
8 this. (To the witness): Would you mind getting the volume
9 at the very top of the bookcase with a "2" against a green
10 back, turning right to the back, into divider 31?
11 A. Right to the back?
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13 Q. Yes, divider 31.
14 A. OK.
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16 Q. Sorry, 32. In fact, if you go about a dozen or so pages in
17 from the back, you will see that there are page numbers at
18 the bottom. Turn to one with "62" stamped on the bottom,
19 please.
20 A. Yes
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22 Q. That is an annual performance review done by Mr. Davis on
23 Mr. Coton and dated 1st November 1990. Bottom of page 62,
24 top of page 63.
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26 MR. MORRIS: Is it clear, Mr. Skehel, that the third goal from,
27 presumably, the previous performance review, annual
28 performance review and objectives, the third goal and
29 objective was to get straight As on the full field,
30 and -----
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I suggest you start at the very beginning of
33 PR on page 59 at the top. "In your interim PR I stated that
34 for six months from your previous annual PR you had
35 performed quite well obtaining Bs but never clipping the
36 As." Then we go to the bottom of 62 and the top of 63.
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38 MR. MORRIS: So, in the previous six months, he had been
39 obtaining Bs? I do not know.
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Have you read the top of page 63, as well?
42 A. Yes.
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44 Q. What is being suggested to you is that if you turn back to
45 54, which is interim performance review, 1st May 1990?
46 A. Yes.
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48 Q. Second sentence: "I feel the store operates at a solid B
49 level but never maintains As"?
50 A. OK.
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52 Q. Are the assessments you have read there, if your evidence
53 is accurate, quite inconsistent with what you say you
54 found, almost as soon as you arrived. That is what, in
55 effect, is being put to you; do you accept that?
56 A. I guess, if that is what Mark says, that is what Mark
57 says. It does say in the review at the introduction to
58 Ray's Annual Review, page 59: "Unfortunately, you failed
59 to grasp this challenge and have had in some ways a very
60 poor six months". I accept that prior to that occasion,
