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Guest blog: Sellafield deploys reverse glasnost

by Philip Whiteley Sellafield site As reported on this blog earlier this week, the confrontational, five-and-a-half-year whistleblowing litigation between equalities adviser Alison McDermott and Sellafield and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority last week featured a one-day costs hearing at Leeds Employment Tribunal, even though an earlier costs award against Ms McDermott had been ruled as…

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#Alison Mcdermott #employment tribunal #nuclear decommissioning authority #Sellafield

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Sellafield whistleblower fights nuclear giants to avoid a £40,000 costs order for the second time around

Alison McDermott Alison McDermott, a human resources and diversity consultant, was back at a tribunal last week fighting a second attempt by Sellafield waste facility and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to demand costs after she brought a whistleblowing case against both of them. The consultant was sacked by Sellafield after she compiled a report at their request which revealed…

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#Alison Mcdermott #bullying #Deshpal Panesar KC #nuclear decommissioning authority #Sellafield

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Judge holds hearing to decide whether Dr Usha Prasad unfair dismissal case can go ahead

Dr Usha Prasad Dr Usha Prasad, the whistleblower cardiologist sacked by the Epsom and St Helier University Hospital Trust, was back at an employment tribunal yesterday to fight for a hearing that she had been unfairly dismissed. The public hearing was delayed for nearly two hours because 400 pages of legal papers from the trust could not be immediately accessed to be read by the judge. So both…

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#cardiology #dr usha prasad #employment tribunal #St George&039;s.Epsom and NHS Trust Helier #unfair dismissal

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Why babies now could face brain damage at the health trust that sacked whistleblower obstetrician Mr Martyn Pitman

Dr Martyn Pitman Thousands of followers of this website may remember last year’s nine blog coverage I gave to the employment tribunal over the sacking of whistleblower Mr Martyn Pitman at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT). He lost the hearing. He was belittled and and repeatedly insulted  by the former head of chambers, Mark Sutton of Old Square Chambers, including calling him a…

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#alex whitfield #brain damaged babies #dr martyn pitman #Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust #midwifery services

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Guest blog: Time to regulate the all too powerful NHS Trust managers

They act as ” judge, jury and executioner” when whistleblowers raise patient safety issues By David Ward, a former consultant cardiologist at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, London All staff working in the healthcare professions should be regulated for very obvious reasons. Most of them are but NHS Trust managers (non-medical) are not. Why? Given that managers have enormous and disproportionate…

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#david ward #lawyers #NHS Trusts #patient safety

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Whistleblower Dr Chris Day's appeal: Has Judge Andrew Burns KC ruling made it impossible for him to get open justice?

Deputy High Court judge Andrew Burns KC Superficially the ruling by Deputy High Court judge Andrew Burns looked like a victory for the long campaigning whistleblower Dr Chris Day to get a fair hearing at his forthcoming Employment Appeal Tribunal. He was granted an appeal on six of the ten grounds presented to the hearing and he was publicly commended by the judge for restoring the employment…

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#ben cooper KC #dame jennifer eady #Dr chris day #Judgeandrew burns #Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust #old square chambers

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Exclusive: New mediation demanded for 50s women as judicial review is postponed

CEDAWinLAW takes the fight to the UN in Geneva Former judgeJocelynne Scutt (middle) with Professor Natasha Despoja, a CEDAW committee member ((left) and Dr Elgun Safarov ( deputy chairman ( Right) CEDAWinLAW, the successor organisation to Backto60, has decided to postpone its legal action on behalf of all 1950s women to force Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, to go to mediation over…

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#50swomen #CEDAWinLAW #judicial review #Mel Stride #Waspi

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How Rishi Sunak caused chaos at the Parliamentary Ombudsman's office by blocking a smooth transition to Rob Behren's successor

Nick Hardwick pic credit: Wikipedia Today’s scoop in the Financial Times by the paper’s Whitehall Editor, Lucy Fisher, has finally revealed why it has taken nearly three months for the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s board not to be able to appoint a permanent successor to Rob Behrens, the outgoing Ombudsman, who has just retired. It appeared Nick Hardwick, was the Parliamentary Ombudsman Board’s…

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#Nick Hardwick #Parliamentary Ombudsman #Rishi Sunak #sir alex allan #william wragg

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The overlong and continuing battle for 50swomen to get their delayed pensions: My interview with Marie Greenhalgh on South Manchester's Radio Wythenshawe FM

This week I gave a long interview with radio presenter Marie Greenhalgh who is also a 1950s born woman. It is as much a chat as an interview.. For those who missed it and would like to have heard it here it is – courtesy of the community radio station. I was absolutely delighted to be given such a chance to explain in detail this sorry story which has never been properly covered by mainstream…

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#50swomen #CEDAWinLAW #department for work and pensions #Mel Stride #Waspi

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Mel Stride roasted over his " no undue delay" posture on compensating the 3.5 million 50swomen who had waited a decade to get justice

Mel Stride Not one MP in Parliament came to the rescue of Mel Stride, the work and pension secretary, when he made his initial statement on the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s report which concluded that there was maladministration over the delay in communicating the six year delay to women in the 1950s and either Parliament or the DWP should compensate them. Essentially it was a holding statement…

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#50swomen #Conservative MPs #labour #Mel Stride #scottish national party #Waspi

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50s women are back to Square One after the Parliamentary Ombudsman "cops out" of awarding them a penny

Rob Behrens departing Parliamentary Commissioner Today’s report from Robert Behrens, the Parliamentary Ombudsman, is one of the most underwhelming publications ever to come from a public figure asked to redress a major injustice. After toiling over his report for some seven years all he can produce is a mouse of a publication which leaves some 3.5 million women born in the 1950s having to fight…

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#department for work and pensions #labour party #Parliamentary Ombudsman #rob behrens #Waspi

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William Wragg acts as Parliamentary Ombudsman Office faces life without a boss

William Wragg William Wragg, the Tory chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, has belatedly intervened in the growing crisis over the failure of the Prime Minister to appoint a new Parliamentary Ombudsman to replace Rob Behrens who quits on March 31. In a letter published on the committee’s website Mr Wragg asks Sir Alex Allan, the senior non executive director…

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#Parliament #Parliamentary Ombudsman #Rishi Sunak #sir alex allan #william wragg

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Why the next government must tackle Whitehall reform to get the best bang for its buck

Francis Maude pic credit: Gov.uk Last week I attended a meeting of the Industry Forum – a Labour inclined think tank that discusses crucial business and economic issues often addressed by Labour politicians and MPs under Chatham House rules. This one was different for two reasons. It was “on the record” and it was addressed by a former Tory minister, Francis Maude, one of the founders of Policy…

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#byline times #Industry Forum #labour #Lord Maude #national audit office

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MPs call again for reform of the antiquated Parliamentary Ombudsman - but ignore the plight of 50swomen

William Wragg MP: official Portrait Also ” Ombudsman friend “of Rob Behrens facing a corruption hearing in Australia MPs today publish their official annual scrutiny of the work of the Parliamentary Ombudsman but what it doesn’t say is more important than what it says. The committee call again – this time for a manifesto commitment from all political parties – to reform the 57 year old…

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#corruption #Israel #Michael Field #Parliamentary Ombudsman #Public administration and constitional affairs committee and C #rob behrens #Western Australia Ombudsman

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Whistleblower Dr Chris Day wins right to appeal in his ten year patient safety battle against Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Dr Chris Day Whistleblower Dr Chris Day won the right to appeal today when a a Deputy High Court Judge Andrew Burns of the Employment Appeal Tribunal granted permission to appeal the November 2022 decision of the London South Employment Tribunal on five out of eight grounds at a hearing in London. My blog on this case is here: Tribunal of the Absurd: My Verdict on the Dr Chris Day whistleblower…

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#Dr chris day #employment tribunal #Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust #patient safety

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London borough of Richmond and the Met Police deny historic child sex abuse after survivor's predator gets jailed for six years

Keith Hinchliffe Met Police says it was not a crime for council staff to proposition children for sex in 1984 Keith Hinchliffe, the child sex abuse survivor, who got his predator sentenced to six years in jail 40 years after he abused him for three years , is facing an uphill battle with the Met Police and the London borough of Richmond to get compensation or even recognition there was a…

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#London borough of Richmond #Met Police #paedophiles #social services

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Exclusive: Child sex abuse survivor gets his predator jailed 40 years after he committed multiple sex acts against him in London and Buckinghamshire

Keith Hinchliffe. He contacted me and gave me permission to use his name to encourage other survivors to come forward and get justice in the courts and compensation. Judge described him as ” an immensely impressive witness, honest, reasonable and composed under pressure” A child sex abuse survivor has got justice 40 years after he was groomed and sexually assaulted by a paedophile who went on…

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#chjld abuse survivors #London borough of Richmond #Met Police #paedophiles #Thames Valley Police