The Independent report:

The BBC is using the licence fee to pay the legal fees of its controversial and departing £320,000-a-year head of human resources after she instructed lawyers to “take matters further” when a trade union made claims of a “dirty tricks” operation at the broadcaster.

Lucy Adams, who has announced she is leaving the corporation in March to “try something new”, was heavily criticised over her role in the BBC executive pay scandal.

Stewart Jackson MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the parliamentary watchdog, said she “presided over” a culture of “corporate fraud and cronyism”.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.