would like to bring to your attention an
interesting website: www.truthislouder.com Click on this link.
You will find information pertaining to
Lewisham Council and the pilfering away of tax payers money.
Lewisham Council have spent in excess of
£700,000 of tax payers money battling a former employee (who is also a
bankrupt), in the Tribunal and High Court for 2 years, (with no hope of ever
recouping any costs), and defending a catalogue of lies told by its managers
about the former employee. The High Court case was not allowed to proceed and
Lewisham Council was awarded costs, but it is not pursuing those costs,
(surprise, surprise)!
Lewisham Council is refusing to reveal
how much money it spent defending the High Court defamation case brought by its
former employee.
Please refer to the website www.whatdotheyknow.com, where a
freedom of information request for this information was refused. In the search
bar, just type in 'London Borough of Lewisham legal fees'.
‘A public authority can only withhold
the information if the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs
the public interest in disclosure’- Information Commissioner’s Office
(2012) The public interest test, p2.
No doubt Lewisham Council does not want
Tax payers to know how much of their money was actually wasted on this case!
Is this Lewisham Council's idea of
transparency and accountability?
Kind regards
Concerned tax payer