Internal Reference Number: FOI_7562
Date Request Received: 17/11/2023 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 11/12/2023 00:00:00
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Request Summary: PIDA employment dispute costs
Request Category: Media
Question Number 1: This request relates to employment tribunals/disputes defended by your Trust relating to claims made under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (i.e., where claimants allege to have suffered detriment, including unfair dismissal, as a result of making a ‘protected disclosure’ or ‘public interest disclosure’ or ‘whistleblowing disclosure’) since the start of the 2012/13 tax year. a) Please state the total number of employment tribunals/disputes brought under the Public Interest Disclosure Act defended by your Trust since April 2012. b) If possible without triggering s40 of the FOIA, please provide a yearly breakdown in tax years (2012/13-2022/23) of question 1.a. | |
Answer To Question 1: The Trust has only received 1 such claim in 2013. This was defended successfully by the Trust. | |
Question Number 2: a) Please state the total paid out in legal fees (including legal advice) by your Trust defending employment tribunals/disputes brought under the Public Interest Disclosure Act since April 2012. b) If possible without triggering s40 of the FOIA, please provide a yearly breakdown in tax years (2012/13-2022/23) of question 2.a. | |
Answer To Question 2: There has only been 1 such claim and this was issued in 2013 | |
Question Number 3: a) Please state the total amount spent on the individual employment tribunal/dispute brought under the Public Interest Disclosure Act defended by your Trust, which cost your Trust the highest sum in legal fees, since April 2012. | |
Answer To Question 3: Solicitors fees = £39.038.15 + VAT | |
Question Number 4: a) Please state the total number of employment tribunals/disputes brought under the Public Interest Disclosure Act defended by your Trust, which resulted in the use of a Non-Disclosure Agreement (‘NDA’ or ‘confidentially clause’), since April 2012. | |
Answer To Question 4: One | |
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