A university lecturer has won a £15,000 payout after being unfairly sacked from job for ‘aggressive’ behaviour – by sending too many question marks in text messages. Dr Binoy Sobnack, a physics lecturer at the University of Loughborough, created an ‘intimidating tone’ with his use of ‘multiple punctuation marks’, a tribunal heard. He was removed … Read more
Dr Olajide Ogunjimi was cleared of misconduct by a disciplinary panel after it agreed that the two police officers who handcuffed and tear gassed him during an arrest acted ‘unreasonably and disproportionately’ against the father-of-three (pictured) A hospital doctor who was handcuffed and tear gassed by ‘heavy handed’ police officers while being arrested has been … Read more
Aerospace company worker was sacked for calling white colleague with a black wife and mixed race children a ‘w*gger’, tribunal hears Brian Dumbrill used slur towards colleague while working for Hexcel Composite Offensive term usually used to insult white youths who adopt black youth culture His colleague Kevin Angus, who has a black wife, reported … Read more
A barrister who dealt in the chemsex pills that killed his teenage boyfriend went on a drugs binge after he was suspended from the profession, a tribunal has heard. Henry Hendron, 40, is facing 18 charges of professional misconduct brought by the Bar Standards Board in relation to behaviour which followed a previous suspension. In … Read more
A black teenager has won £16,000 after a tribunal ruled Topshop bosses were racist for calling her ‘thick’ and she was ‘earning a lot of money for someone like her’. Shaniqua McKenzie, who was 16 at the time, was asked by her bosses at a Topshop in Wimbledon, London, how her grandma could afford to … Read more
A drunk BUPA doctor was arrested as she tried to drive home from a 9am patient clinic following an evening celebrating her son’s promotion, a medical tribunal heard. Consultant Radiologist Dr Margaret Phelan, 67, attended a private hospital in Kensington, west London for a series of consultations despite still being intoxicated from the night before. The mother-of-three … Read more
A vegan animal rights activist was wrongfully dismissed for blowing the whistle on an anti-hunting charity’s ‘unethical’ pension investments, a tribunal heard today. Jordi Casamitjana, 56, was sacked from his position as head of policy and research at the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) in April 2018 after sending an email to colleagues about alternative … Read more