The government will not pay Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson’s tribunal legal fees after it emerged the council taxpayers picked up the £89,000 bill.

Liverpool council paid the legal costs after Mayor Anderson went to an employment tribunal following his dismissal from Chesterfield High School in Crosby.

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It emerged in a freedom of information request that the council bore the £89,000k legal costs of his unsuccessful challenge to a decision not to award him compensation.

Reported by the Liverpool Echo. You can read the full story here. 

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.