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Yet another potentially dangerous leak at Sellafield nuclear waste plant
The giant Sellafield site The Sunday Mirror reports today of yet another potentially serious leak affecting worker safety at Sellafield which was not publicly released two years ago. A whistleblower told the paper that an elevated level of nitrogen which can cause asphyxiation was released in the most dangerous building on the site – the Magnox nuclear storage facility which is also leaking…
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An appeal for ten brave women who want to challenge a bullying employment judge
Judge Philip Lancaster I don’t usually run appeals for money on my blog but I am making an exception in this case because of the huge injustice in the employment tribunal system that allows some judges to insult, berate and patronise women who come before them. To do so they have to get a judicial review against the Judicial Conduct Investigation Office which is both refusing to investigate…
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MP calls on Sellafield chief executive to apologise to whistleblower after spending £750,000 to silence her
Euan Hutton, chief executive of Sellafield, found himself being called to apologise in public to whistleblower Alison McDermott by her local MP, Anna Dixon at a highly charged hearing of the Commons Public Accounts Committee last week. Anna Dixon MP The chief executive was clearly embarrassed to face questions about spending such a lot of public money to silence the whistleblower after she…
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How Sellafield and its lawyers attempted to subvert the Freedom of Information Act to harass whistleblowers
Sellafield A very disturbing story is emerging from Sellafield about attempts by the management and its lawyers to make whistleblowers sign away their rights to make freedom of information and subject access requests to their organisation or face large costs bills through the employment tribunal system. This attempt – when I checked with the Information Commissioner’s Office – is outside the…
Red Faces for Sellafield and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority as their lawyers are slammed by a judge
Alison McDermott Taxpayers left with a £1 million bill as whistleblower Alison McDermott wins case not to pay nearly all “unsafe” costs Sellafield and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority were all but humiliated in a court judgement in their second attempt to get costs against whistleblower human resources consultant Alison McDermott for exposing bullying and alleged sexual harassment at the…
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The mad waste of public money by UK's leading nuclear giants to pursue costs against a whistleblower at your expense
Sellafield One aspect of the second recent cost hearing against whistleblower and human resources consultant Alison McDermott by Sellafield and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority which was not covered is the cost to the public and us the taxpayer. During the hearing Deshpal Panesar, KC Sellafield’s lawyer from Old Square Chambers, rather pompously told the hearing that the fact Sellafield…
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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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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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