Police Pay Compensation to Morgue-Mix-Up Victim's Family

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Compensation Paid and Apology Made for Death in Custody [24th Nov 2011]

The sister of a man who died while in police custody has been awarded more than £25,000 in compensation. In addition an apology has been made as the treatment of her brother contravened the European Convention on Human Rights. Christopher Alder died in 1998 after he choked to death while in handcuffs in a Hull police station. It was also revealed earlier this month that his family had buried the wrong person due to a mix-up at a morgue. His sister Janet has been campaigning about various aspects of his death for the last 13 years, however the courts have ruled that the compensation and apology should be enough to lay the matter to rest. A civil case against the police has already been lost. Ms Alder has said that it took taking the case to the European Court of Human Rights for anything to be done and to force an apology from the government. However she would like to see the police held responsible. The mix-up over the body is still being investigated.

An Employment Tribunal in Liverpool has found that the administrators of employer Ethel Austin failed to make the correct consultations before they made more than 1700 workers redundant. 500 of these workers will now share £1.5 million in compensation with the shop workers union Usdaw. The workers were offered compensation of eight weeks pay and this is limited to just those staff who worked in the London and Knowsley store and distribution centre. The administrators MCR failed to consult with the union before the redundancies were made, but had been correct to not consult those stores where fewer than 20 employees worked. This has meant that only a third of the staff were eligible for compensation. The union has stated that they are disappointed about this part of the ruling as the union felt that the entire business should have been consulted at the same time. They also feel that the current law of collective redundancies may be unfair and in breach of the European Directive.

It has come to light that banks are still failing to meet regulatory time scales when it comes to PPI compensation payments. It has been estimated that thousands of people are waiting weeks or months for the money they are owed. Adam Phillips from the Financial Services Consumer Panel has stated that with Christmas approaching, banks should do all they can to get payments out as soon as possible. He points out that in order to regain customer trust they need to make more effort. Barclays, Bank of Scotland, Halifax, HSBC and Santander all say that they are meeting their 28 day deadline, while Lloyds TSB have apologised for any delays. They say this has been caused by a processing issue which has now been cleared. RBS say they are working carefully and quickly through their backlog.

A British woman is claiming unfair dismissal compensation from her former employer, an Arab sheikh. She is also claiming sexual discrimination. Lalmalek Al-Bulushi was a senior aide to the ruler of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates where she managed his British property portfolio. She was fired after she suggested her employer should be paying taxes in the UK and after telling him he had asbestos at one of his properties. She said that he believed he had sovereign immunity to protect him from taxes in the UK. Her employer has said that there was a breakdown in trust between them.

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