An advocate, John Halley, who was formerly instructed as one of the counsel to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has raised discrimination proceedings in the Employment Tribunal.
The Chair of the Inquiry is the respondent in the proceedings.
She denies that he was discriminated against; the actings about which he complains were carried out by her in the performance of her duties as Chair of the Inquiry in relation to that counsel having a conflict of interest arising from his previous employment as a residential care worker. Moreover, her position is that the law does not permit him to pursue this claim.
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