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                                                                  DAY 214
 
                                           DAVID ROBERTS, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1   MR. MORRIS:  Do you agree with Mr. Khazna?
     2        A.  Sorry?
     3
     4   Q.   Do you agree with Mr. Khazna about what he said about this
     5        being one of the methods -----?
     6        A.  It is not a method that I have used.
     7
     8   Q.   But it would be an indication -- if you wanted to check,
     9        this would be a document that would show, would it, when
    10        performance reviews were due and what rises people were
    11        given?
    12        A.  It is nothing that I have been instructed to use.
    13
    14   Q.   You have seen this kind of document before?
    15        A.  I have seen it before, yes, but it is not the system
    16        that I actually use or I have been instructed to use.
    17
    18   Q.   Presumably, the documents, you would verify they are
    19        accurate documents?
    20        A.  I would assume so, yes.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you agree with what Mr. Morris is putting
    23        to you, that where it says, "The following rate charges
    24        were proposed during the pay period", that the people who
    25        are listed thereunder are all people who were eligible
    26        during that period for a pay rise?
    27        A.  I have never looked at that before in that respect, so
    28        to me it is new.
    29
    30   Q.   Do you know whether that is what it means or not?
    31        A.  I do not know for a fact.  It looks like it is, but
    32        I do not know for a fact.
    33
    34   MR. MORRIS:  If we look at the two columns under "new regular
    35        rate", with the difference, we have -----
    36
    37   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, now Mr. Morris is pursuing what one might
    38        call submissions or comments rather than questions, because
    39        the witness has said that it might be so; he does not know
    40        that it is, and he has never used it for that purpose.  So
    41        it is not a valuable use of Mr. Roberts' time for him to
    42        answer questions about it.
    43
    44   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can he really help you if he does not know?
    45
    46   MR. MORRIS:  He presumed it was.
    47
    48   MR. RAMPTON:  No.
    49
    50   MR. MORRIS:  Mr. Rampton is saying what the witness said.  Let 
    51        us check what he said.  "It looks like it is, but I do not 
    52        know for a fact." 
    53
    54   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    55
    56   MR. MORRIS:  (To the witness)  if we look at those two columns,
    57        I will ask you a general question.  I cannot read the names
    58        in the left hand side, but, forgetting the starters --
    59        because obviously they are on a new rate because they just
    60        started that week, or that fortnight -- we have in the
 
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