Wrong Use of Taxpayers’ Money
August 8th, 2016
Letter to Daily Telegraph which was published 9th August 2016 in a cut-down version
The Home Office (report, August 6) is considering giving Dame Lowell Goddard £90,000 “in lieu of three months’ notice” and allowing her to stay on rent-free in her £2,000 per month apartment. This is astonishing even by today’s debased standards of public sector morality.
In the private sector if someone unilaterally breaks their contract it’s they who have to reimburse their employers for the trouble and inconvenience they have caused them. That is the whole purpose of notice periods. All the evidence is that Justice Goddard’s sudden departure will cause her employer much cost and inconvenience.
NB The sections in italics, containing the essence of the argument, were omitted by the Daily Telegraph, but the BBC Radio4 “Today” programme mentioned the letter that morning in its review of the papers.