Tag Archives: Compromise Agreement

Radio 5 Live Investigates – Settlement Agreements and Gagging Clauses

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Wirral In It Together

3rd April 2016 Here’s a link to details of today’s BBC 5 Live programme at 11:00am: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b075t47v The above forms the link to the actual programme, which is available on BBC iPlayer for the next 30 days. Settlement Agreements (formerly known as Compromise Agreements) are legal … Continue reading →

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Paul Cardin appears on www.bastionradio.com

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Wirral In It Together

6th April 2015 The other day I was invited onto Bastion Radio, a Bristol-based up and coming internet service run by Mike West and Kai Holloway. They’d seen a few of my tweets and posts and were interested in hearing all about … Continue reading →

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Victory for Wirral In It Together. We defeat Wirral Council – again

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Wirral In It Together

25th June 2014 Freedom of Information.  Another victory over Wirral Council’s legal “team”. Yesterday, an email came in from WhatDoTheyKnow.com … https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/with_compromise_agreements_not_b#incoming-532480 This response is another calculated exercise in minimisation and a muddying of the water, couched in the blandest and … Continue reading →

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Am I a maker of “vexatious requests” ?

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Wirral In It Together

26th June 2014 UPDATE – Wirral Council have capitulated, and have now withdrawn ALL their ‘vexatious’ refusals targetted against me.  Not content with this however, monitoring officer Surjit Tour, head of the legal “team” has made a veiled threat on … Continue reading →

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Yet another ‘Action Plan’ – dealing with the fallout from the HESPE fiasco… or not…?

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Wirral In It Together

On 18th October 2012, Wirral Council issued an ‘Action Plan‘ – which sounds good… on the face of it; a determination to roll up their sleeves, get stuck in, bang a few heads together, stand for no nonsense and consign … Continue reading →

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#FoI Request ~ Departure of Chief Internal Auditor David Garry from Wirral Council

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Wirral In It Together

THIS IS AN ALLEGEDLY “VEXATIOUS” REQUEST →   18th October 2012 http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/departure_of_chief_internal_audi See also this related blog post Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council, On 17th October 2012, it finally became public knowledge that disgraced Chief Internal Auditor David Garry – … Continue reading →

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#FoI Request ~ Secret agreement allowing suspended Ian Coleman to leave Wirral Council

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Wirral In It Together

5th October 2012 The FoI request:  http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/secret_agreement_allowing_suspen More on Coleman here, from the Local Government Chronicle, including some far-fetched guff about how it would cost the public over a million “if we don’t act decisively in their interest.” It’s not … Continue reading →

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Tribunal decision – ‘Personal Privacy’ trumps the wellbeing of Wirral’s learning disabled citizens

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Wirral In It Together

UPDATE 1st June 2013 A judge and two tribunal members unanimously decided that the data privacy of 2 senior abusers trumped the welfare and wellbeing of any number of disabled persons in the future. Shame on them. 18th October 2013 Here’s the … Continue reading →

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