Whistleblower takes Foreign Office to employment tribunal - Telegraph

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Whistleblower takes Foreign Office to employment tribunal

A Foreign Office official cleared of leaking confidential documents is taking his former employers to an employment tribunal.

By Nick Britten
Last Updated: 7:01PM GMT 19 Nov 2008



Derek Pasquill has accused the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) of unfair dismissal and victimisation.

Mr Pasquill, a 49-year-old diplomat, was suspended for 23 months from the FCO after passing documents to the Observer and New Statesman relating to Government policy in the wake of the 2005 London bombings.

The papers were said to refer to secret CIA flights and the UK's contact with Muslim groups.

Mr Pasquill, from Notting Hill, West London, who worked for the FCO for 24 years, was acquitted in January of six charges of making disclosures damaging to international relations under section 3 of the Official Secrets Act 1989.

His trial collapsed after evidence emerged that the leaks, about the Government's involvement with radical Islamists, were not considered damaging.

Good luck mate!

I took one of my former employers to a tribunal once, they just didn't present any documentation and the case couldn't proceed.

Employment Tribunals........

Window dressing.

Whistleblower takes Foreign Office to employment tribunal - Telegraph

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