Mancester Employment Tribunals and Lancashire County Council

Follow on entry from Local Gov Ombudsman and Lancashire County Council
see link at http://www.criticalreader2006.blogspot.com/

The corruption within the York LGO office to cover for corruption within LCC did not end the matter for me, it was just the beginning.
That corruption was compounded by the employment tribunal in Manchester (MET) where I applied to present a case of constructive dismissal against Lancashire County Council (LCC).
LCC Social Services were on Special Measures at the time for good reason.
My case was numbered as 2406569/01 and initiated on 28 Aug 01.
My IT1 recorded breaches of employment contract e.g. no supervision as a child protection social worker, denied the Equal Opps policies and procedures, the expelling of me by my union UNISON, and the whistleblowing re Fylde Community School. The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and the Trades Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 were some laws relevant.

I heard nothing for months.
The Employment Tribunal Service (ETS) was devised for litigants in persons and there was no preceived need for a solicitor. By Christmas 2001, on receipt of the LGO letter (see link) I received a letter from LCC. A BEVERLEY CULLEN wrote saying that LCC would not inform me who their witnesses were to be. IAN FISHER identified himsefl as Head of Legal Services for LCC.
MET continued to ignore the case.

On 17 Sept 01 I had received a letter from DAVID FAIRCLOUGH then Head of Human Resources for LCC Social Services who said he would have my claim held in abeyance.
I replied saying he would not and informed MET that I would not agree to any abeyance of my claim.
However, the indications were that it had been held in abeyance against my wishes.
Meanwhile I applied to the High Court for a Judicial Review of the LGO's 'findings'.
I made an affidavit to swear in Lancaster Magistrates Court as per my rights but was prevented for no given reason by the Head of Legal Services there, JOHN ROBINSON. A local solicitor assisted me. The case went forward and I was invited by a Judge Hooper for an oral hearing in July 2002. The LGO informed LCC. Whilst I prepared that application I was summoned to MET for a directions hearing. I did not know I was entitled to proper notice so attended.
Chair was ANNA WOOLLEY. LCC were represented by B CULLEN and VICTOR WELCH, I was alone.

Ms Woolley found I had a strong case and set the substantive hearing for 10 days in March 2003, 17 - 28 incl.
I requested an earlier hearing but was told there was a staff shortage in MET. Article 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 does not allow for staff shortages but MET do not allow for Human Rights.
Ms Woolley instructed me to prepare a 48 page statement, paginate the documents and release all to LCC within 2 weeks. There was to be no mutual exchange.
I objected to that, I was a litigant in person and had few resources, I was trying to mitigate my losses by working albeit part time because I was still unwell through stress, and I was delaing with the High Court action.
(I was working as a lecturer and researcher after leaving social services.)
LCC and Ms Woolley told me that I could not have two court cases at one time and I believed them. I would be forced to drop one case and agreed to drop the High Court action. I would concentrate on the tribunal.
I complained that LCC would use my statement and documents to compile their own case. Ms Wolley pointedly told them that she would impose sanctions for perjury.
She herself would hear the case and then I was given an extra week to deliver my statement etc to LCC.
LCC were given 9 weeks to deliver theirs to me.

I requested release of clients' files and was allowed to see the files of LF (seriously altered, see link) SP and SP, BM, KM but for no reason the file of MB was denied to me. I was to view the files when I delivered my statement.
I wrote to judge Hooper and told him I had to withdraw and why. He did not reply.

I delivered all as instructed to the legal dept in COUNTY HALL, PRESTON end July 02 and told B Cullen that LCC management had destroyed all my GP notes of 2001. I had only copied the first and last of those GP notes.
I had reduced my statement to 43 pages, it was enough.
I was then allowed to see the files.
The files of SP and SP were not the right files. As a member of the public as I was then I had no right at all to see those files. I ceased reading them when I realised they were nothing to do with me.
The files of BM and KM had been altered as had the file of baby LF. That file was drastically altered. The altering was to discredit my work as a social worker but the parents were also discredited.
I was not allowed to take notes but could ask for photocopies so that LCC would see what I was wanting.
The breach of confidentiality for SP and SP was appalling.
I made that clear.

I complained to the legal dept., to PAULINE OLIVER then Director LCC Social Services, LCC Corporate Information Security Manager, FRANK LOUGHLIN, MET and the LGO. Nobody commented apart from MET who ordered LCC to deliver up the files for my former clients, SP and SP.
I eventually inspected those files and they too had been altered to the detriment of the clients.
All the children involved were very young.
I informed all as above and also the Information Commissioner via JIM PRESSLY and again remained ignored.

LCC were dismayed at my statement and documents, all events outlined as facts had evidence to support the facts such as being denied the grievance procedure, denied training and applications for other jobs, being forced to work with known bullies; TONY BRADSHAW, GILLIAN ARMSTRONG, PAT ALLEN in Greenbank St Preston.
I had had no supervision, was asked to alter a file to assist LCC win a case in Blackburn High Court Familiy Division,
(LF case), illegally convened case conferences to try and discredit me formally, covert monitoring of me, informing colleagues not to associate with me, offer harassment, intimidation, threats, forcing me to apply for my own job whilst I was off work with stress, force me to attend interview and dismiss me whilst I was off with stress. I was dismissed on 10 Aug 01 by ARMSTRONG via the phone. She told me not to go in any more.
I did. I asked my GP to sign me as fit to work and went back to Greenbank St.

They were not pleased to see me. My desk had been cleared, my files had disappeared and I was locked out of the ISSIS recording system; I was prevented from doing my job.
I informed all that Armstrong had no contractual right to dismiss me, had offered me no feedback after her ridiculous 'interview' of 10/8/01, any one of those abuses I suffered at the hands of those stupid people would have won me a tribunal claim.

I was confident in my claim. Under Section 7 of the Data Protection Act 1998 Amended 2000 I made a Section 7 Subject Access Request and received my personnel file papers from LCC. They had 40 days to comply with my request under the law but I had to wait 84 days. I informed JIM PRESSLY (ICO) but the law was not applicable to LCC. Knowing that LCC had filled my file with manufactured 'reports' 'meetings' etc all of which discredited me for use in the tribunal I could show that they were all false in content. I would be declaring perjury under the 1911 Act Case Law R v Sharpe/Stringer 1937.

But on 28/8/01 I wasn't even at the begining of the learning curve and had just resigned.
I had been constructively dismissed as well as unfairly dismissed.
My claim in MET was for Constructive Dismissal.

Cullen wrote to me in Aug 2002 saying that she would have to revise all their statements after seeing mine.
I had been forced to sign a form each time I visited the legal dept to see the files. Immediately on returning home I sent a letter saying I had signed under duress, my signature counted for nothing.

LCC did not comply with Ms Woolley's order to deliver their statements and documents to me and I was forced to complain again about their behaviours.
Their statements came in sporadically. Ms Woolley ordered a copy to be sent to the court as well. She had already seen my statement, LCC sent it to her thinking she would make me alter it, it backfired on them, she ordered senior managers in as witnesses.

SUE MITCHELL AND PAULINE OLIVER WERE TO APPEAR AS WAS BOB GOWER.
P OLIVER took 'early retirement' in Oct 2002 for no given reason at all. She was protecting her pension.
Nov 02 and MET forced me to another directions hearing at the request of LCC.
There was no need for this, all the papers were in.
Now LCC had a barrister, TANYA VERONICA GRIFFITHS best known for her yobbish, screeching behaviour in courts.

In Nov 02 friends of mine expressed an interest in attending the hearing and I am glad that they did. Now a DAVID LEAHY was chairman, he clearly knew GRIFFITHS and LCC and they had obviously talked prior to my being called in. Before I sat down LEAHY began shouting, "We have to consider the Local Authority"
LEAHY said that he would not ask LCC for the senior manager witnesses overriding Ms Woolley.
He denied me witnesses saying, "I'm not having a queue of people tell me how wonderful you are"
He went on, "They've had to get a barister, have you any idea what Ms Griffiths earns in a day?"
(She wasn't worth it being lazy, grossly unintelligent and poorly qualified.)
That lasted exactly 20 minutes then he reduced my claim to unfair dismissal saying it was the same as constructive dismissal hoping that as a litigant in person I would not know the difference.

I formally complained to LEAHY and to the Acting Regional Chairman BRIAN DOYLE remaining ignored until I submitted appeal papers to appeal against LEAHY's junk mail. I wrote to the then Lord Chancellor Lord Irving of Lariq and told him what had happened.
Another directions was hurriedly convened for 17 Jan 03 and Ms Woolley was back as chairman.
She made it clear she had a good overview of this complex case and so would hear it in March. She ordered LCC to release their diaries to me. LCC were furious and simply ignored the order without sanction.
Ms Woolley refused to collude with Griffiths who was in full throttle again.
I had taken 2 others again, one was Tina and she had been with me in Nov 02.
Ms Woolley said I would have 3 days to read my statement and cross reference to my documents.

On March 17th 2003 I had 2 witnesses, LCC had a few. The bench was PETER RUSSELL chairman, BARNES and NICHOLLS as lay members. The clerk was Claire Hobley. The room was on Floor 7 for special reasons.
Claire told me with my witnesses that LCC had had Ms Woolley removed from the case.
I was rushed through my statement in less than one day and not allowed to refer to any documents.
RUSSELL was bored and disinterested and gazed at the ceiling most of the time.
Griffiths leapt to her feet as soon as she was able, her gibberish spilled out, "You've been to Cuba, you're political" My going to New Orleans was also made something of. Griffiths kept me on the witness stand for 3 days and did not ask me one single proper question at all.

Finally a document was thrust at me, JANE WEBB, DETECTIVE, LANCASHIRE POLICE case BM and KM as author. WEBB had destroyed 6 pages of evidence in that case of serious sex abuse of a 12 year old girl with learning difficulties and her 13 year old brother. The 6 pages named the pepetrator but it was inconvenient to WEBB becasue it showed that I had been right and she had been wrong.
WEBB was now teaching me the proverbial lesson because I had caught her to be what she was.

I declared Webb's letter to be a perjured document under Section 5 of the Perjury Act 1911. Stunned silence. I showed how I could prove it as perjury.
RUSSELL became interested and asked if there were any other perjured documents in LCC bundle and I said there was, every single one.
Griffiths was having hysterics, the court ended for the day and Griffiths and LCC attendees went to meet with Russell in his chambers. I thought this was unfair,I did not know it was illegal.
March 20th TONY BRADSHAW LCC witness, perjurer, proven : LCC by now attending mob-handed; hostile, oppressive atmosphere.
Meetings between LCC and bench regular, Claire Hobley kept me informed.

21 March 03 Friday PAT ALLEN on stand, couldn't read her statement, only semi literate, perjury proven on every single document produced by her.
On Sat and Sun, March 22/23 I prepare a one page statement recording the travesty taking place. There were no signed witness statements for LCC, one person had written them all. I had 2 witnesses that Monday when Russell tried to prevent me reading my one page out.

Witnesses for that second week for LCC were TONY BRADSHAW again, MARIA LEWIS, ELIZABETH MURPHY, PAT DAMMS, CLIVE GIDDINGS, VICTOR WELCH. DAVID FAIRCLOUGH, TONY MORRISEY, JOHN BUTTON, STANLEY ELY, JANE GRAY, GILLIAN ARMSTRONG and JUDY DEERING.
Griffiths read out an unsigned witness statement for LOUISE YOUNG saying that Louise was 'on leave'.
Louise didn't work for LCC then nor had she done when the statement was written. It was expected that the constant harassment and intimidation would ensure that I never got to the tribunal.
Griffiths refused to call Mitchell and Gower; P Oliver had resigned by then.

JUDY DEERING, rountine perjurer for LCC as solicitor in legal dept. child care also worked as a bar night club manager in breach of her work contract. I reported her to the Law Society as I did CULLEN and those from the legal dept including IAN YOUNG and CLAIRE GREALIS. The corruption of the Law Society in protecting those criminals will be a related entry later.
J DEERING 'disappeared' as P Oliver had done.

In my closing submissions read out on the last day, 28 March 03, witnessed, I invoked various human rights and P Russell said, "We don't bother with those".
I was told I had won and to expect a rememdy hearing and asked if I would accept a remedy hearing for the case then running alongside, a bullying claim against FAIRCLOUGH and YOUNG. I agreed.
I waited many weeks but heard nothing. Something was very wrong.

I learned of the public records office in Bury St Edmunds and travelled the round trip of 540 miles in one day. My claim was not registered, there was no record of it. 3 solicitors confirmed that and then later a fourth.
LCC had been attending and claiming subsistence allowances knowing it was a fraud.
Was Peter Russell, David Leahy and Anna Woolley paid at public expense to attend a claim they knew was not legal? What of Barnes and Nicholls?

On May 7th 2003 I received P Russell's Extended Reasons. I had lost and would pay costs. The cost hearing had been arranged for 28 May 03.
I wrote saying I would charge them with fraud and BRAIN DOYLE, now REGIONAL CHAIRMAN told me it was my responsibility to call in the CPS then threatened me if I did do.
He said he would consider my complaint once the processes had been completed. He did not bother.
I wrote to Barnes and Nicholls saying the decision had been changed. Doyle wrote to me saying he had my letters and Barnes and Nicholls would be allowed to see them. I complained to the Royal Mail, the Interception of Communications under the 1985 Act was applicable. The corruption within the Royal Mail on this business will have its own entry linked later.

Russell's junk mail was contradictorywith proven false content, it was undated and unsealed.
He knew it would be entered into other courts and thus he too would commit perjury under Sec 5 of the 1911 when I did enter it. It would go to the EAT. (For which corruption see related link later.)
I regularly asked for Decision Judgement Documents signed by all members but could not be sent one.
One has never existed.

Russell also recorded that my Public Interest Disclosure was of no interest to the public, and neither werethe altered Committee Meeting Minutes or the altered children's files (see link LGO and LCC).
My documents were scotch mist, he records that there were none.
He also forgot that he had said (witnesed) "You are getting people struck off, you are getting people sent to prison" I had not asked them to commit perjury and conspire to pervert the course of justice, they had done it themselves.
I initiated the Employment Appeal Tribunal claim (EAT)

The cost hearing for end May was cancelled 'becasue counsel cannot attend'.
End July I received LCC's 'revised submissions' after 28 March 03. (I know, complete fantasy land they live in)
There was a letter to MET from LCC copied to me anonymously, it said words to the effect, "Hurry up, give her a cost hearing before she reports us to the police".

I had tried to report them to Lancaster police (for which part in this corruption see related link to be added later) and the CPS in Preston via a Tracey Ames who was doing her job until IAN RUSHTON pushed her aside to 'see me off'. CPS has its own entry linked later with the corrupt cartle named.

A second cost hearing date was given to be 1st Sept 03, 4 days prior to the EAT hearing making it illegal in any event. I did not go to MET on 1/9/03. Costs were awarded agsinst me, almost £40,000. I was expected tfund what can best be described as organised crime.
Actually the cost hearing had been held on 28 May 03 , all documented via the court computerised records in my possession.
The court computersied records obtained via the DTI in London then data controllers' for the ETS came to me after a Sec 7 SAR.
Those records show that Russell with LCC met privately in April 03 for 2 days, that would be when history was rewritten.
They show that my claim was never registered and thus never heard.
They show that costs had not been awarded against me at all.
Not even after the extra 2 days in April.
FRAUD.
Was the money to be given to PETER RUSSELL for 'throwing' my case? I have asked numerous times but can be given no reply.
LEAHY, DOYLE and a PETER BEAUMONT are all party to that, it will be established practice.
For BEAUMONT see related entry later.

President of the ETS, MEERAN only answered once and in that he lied. He sets the standards for the ETS.
Falconer replaced Lord Irving of Lariq and Falconer will have his own related link later.

Chief Exective of the ETS, Roger Haethcote was a decent man but sadly he retired to be replaced by JEANNE SPINKS another female to be used as a puppet by the 'men' in this.

My closing submissions refered to laws aditional to human rights:
Croner's Employment Law
other employment laws, Statutory Instruments, Health and Sfety legislations, Trades Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, Interception of Communications Act 1985 and related statutory instrument, Data protection issues for clients and myself and the people of Lancashire, Perjury including TANYA GRIFFITHS who had produced 7 pages of her own for the second week of the hearing in March.

ACAS and UNISON fit into the picture as do the other agencies referred to. Add the Bar Council the Legal Services Ombudsman, and the Royal Courts of Justice.
Other minor courts including LANCASTER COUNTY COURT for which see next entry which will be linked to this.
Ends here Carol Woods April 24th 2007
NB my documents were not scotch mist and I still have them. See LGO and LCC as above.