Day 145 - 29 Jun 95 - Page 46

     
     1        meeting, and you will use those notes.  What I do
     2        personally is I check off those things I am responsible for
     3        to make sure I did them.
     4
     5   Q.   Does the Company have a policy of not minuting meetings?
     6        A.  No, not at all.  Every individual can do what they want
     7        to do within the Company.  If it is their style to do it
     8        they can do it.  If it is not their style so be it.
     9
    10   Q.   They all just happened to have decided they are not going
    11        to do it?
    12        A.  I cannot answer for everybody.  I can just tell you
    13        what I do.  There may be others -- I know there are others
    14        who do a variety of different things on a lot of different
    15        matters, so you need really to ask the specific
    16        individuals.
    17
    18   Q.   You a lawyer.  Would it not be extremely useful to have
    19        minutes of meetings?
    20        A.  No, it would be wasteful.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can we just draw a distinction?  It may not
    23        matter at the end of the day, but what I take to be minutes
    24        are a formal note taken by someone who attends the meeting
    25        for that purpose; they may attend it for other purposes as
    26        well.
    27        A.  Yes.
    28
    29   Q.   The notes of which are then circulated among those who
    30        attend, and at the next meeting there is an opportunity to
    31        verify them or take issue with them?
    32        A.  No.
    33
    34   Q.   At Board meetings there will be something like that?
    35        A.  Yes, my Lord, but in my meetings each one of us takes
    36        notes on the assignments that we need to do, we do it
    37        ourselves and then you check it off and you may do a report
    38        with the next meeting on what in fact -- when I say
    39        "report", you verbally state what you accomplish, what you
    40        have not accomplished and what you have left to be done.
    41
    42   MS. STEEL:   What if there is a disagreement about what was
    43        supposed to be done?
    44        A.  If there is any confusion you solve the confusion at
    45        that time.  You give the specific direction to get it done
    46        within a specific time period and that is it.
    47
    48   Q.   So records are made of meetings but they are not what you
    49        would call "minutes"?
    50        A.  I think everybody takes notes, well, I take notes, let 
    51        us put it that way.  I take notes because I want to know 
    52        what I need to do as a result of a particular meeting, 
    53        I want to refer back to it and I want to check off when
    54        I have accomplished things.
    55
    56   Q.   How do you let other people know what went on at that
    57        meeting who did not attend but who might need to know what
    58        went on?
    59        A.  It depends upon the kinds of meetings you have.  I have
    60        meetings with mu Department Heads and my Department Heads