Our legal action against Sgoiltean Ùra
A calling date has now been requested from the Court of Session, 21 days after the Summons was served on Sgoiltean Ùra.
The other side have to be given 21 days notice, and the date for actually hearing the action will now be set by the Court of Session.
When the action goes ahead, I will be placing into the public domain the full file of emails, letters and other documents I hold, which I promise will make for very entertaining reading for all my readers.
Or if you authored the best of these documents, they will make for sphincter-tightening reading.
Just for the record, our invitations to try to resolve this without recourse to legal action have been met either with silence or with bland non-committal letters from Sgoiltean Ùra or their solicitors. But, you can be the judge of that very shortly.
The other side have to be given 21 days notice, and the date for actually hearing the action will now be set by the Court of Session.
When the action goes ahead, I will be placing into the public domain the full file of emails, letters and other documents I hold, which I promise will make for very entertaining reading for all my readers.
Or if you authored the best of these documents, they will make for sphincter-tightening reading.
Just for the record, our invitations to try to resolve this without recourse to legal action have been met either with silence or with bland non-committal letters from Sgoiltean Ùra or their solicitors. But, you can be the judge of that very shortly.
16 comments:
Oh the sheer anticipation of it all.
I can't wait. The book I'm reading just now is rubbish and I can't be bothered finishing it. This will replace it nicely.
Angus, you may be interested to know that I heard through the grapevine that at the last meeting of the directors less than a fortnight ago, the two independent directors have proposed a policy similar to that of the one aimed at Crichton which is to try to bankrupt your firm by stringing out the court action.
You have been warned, this came from a very reliable source. I really hope for your sake that you don't let the incompetents bring you down.
Bring it on.
Trouble your Council et al is covered in Teflon and nothing will stick - be sure.
AND you silly sods will vote them all in again 'cause you know them.
LOL
Angus,
Just be careful. You know what it's like when things turn nasty, and you have a wife and family.
I wish you well, and am very glad that you are putting the materials into the public domain. A failure of exposure has meant that the same people in Lewis get away with the same things repeatedly.
Several well-wishers from parts near and far.
Surely it must be possible to find credible candidates to run against certain key people. Only two or three need to go to upset the apple cart.
Good luck to you. Some of these people get increasingly nasty the closer you get to exposing them.
There is a ghastly, bullying cabal at the heart of this establishment that likes singling out people who challenge them and enjoys bringing them down. Most people who work in the Coouncil know who they are and are scared s***less of them.
If you win this, you can be sure they won't forget it. And you can be sure they won't face any censure for it, either.
The irony is that whatever they did to you won't be the worst of their excesses.
Am I the only one reading some of these so called best wishes comments as veiled threats in themselves? Is this how the local Mafia operate?
Reading between the lines of todays Hebrides News report, it looks like you are in line for a payout.
I really, really, hope that the Councillors and staff responsible for this waste of taxpayers money are hung, drawn and quartered.
Well done Angus, at last someone has exposed their incompetence.
The Councillors are having an informal briefing tonight at which the decision about your claim will be formally announced.
Will they also be told about the current investigation into some people in the Finance Department?
Wonder if you can clarify whether the Council has to accept the lowest bid for tenders it puts out? Just wondering in general, not in relation to your case which looks like there's other factors involved.
The Council usually sets a series of criteria and weights them accordingly. This then forms part of the tender.
For instance:
Price: 50%
Relevant experience: 30%
Quality: 20%
The tenders are then scored using this system, and the winner is the one with the highest overall score.
The Council are obliged to use the highest scoring tenderer, otherwise what would be the point?
If you read Angus' legal action, his firm were the cheapest and also scored the highest.
Almost identical rules apply to interviews for job vacancies, and the purpose of these rules is to have an objective assessment of the parties so as to avoid complaints of bias or favouritism, and to avoid legal action happening.
In this case, it seems the rules were applied and then torn up.
The lawyers told Sgoiltean Ura that they had to accept the winning tender, but someone (who???) decided to overrule this. This is exactly what happened to Iain Crichton and goodness knows how many others.
Thanks for that Mr Cearc!!
So what is the rules for interviews L Chic? what would go in place of price?
anon 3:42
How does this apply to an interview situation?
Who you know obviously!
How to get a job at the Comhairle.
50% who you know.
30% Relevant experience.
20% Quality.
This explains why we have such a load of inbred tossers in the Comhairle, it's not what you know its who you know, this has been said by others for a longtime now, now we know how it happens, we have the formula.
4.22pm
Must take issue with your scoring system for job applications at the council:
Who you know: 80%
Relevant Experience: Doesn't matter
Quality:See above
Nice car:40%
Err...?
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