Saturday
06Sep2008
"BIN LADEN'S FRIEND"
Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 09:45AM Our courts make me sick.
A Muslim lawyer who was suspended after telling a court security guard she was a 'friend of Bin Laden's' has won a £600,000 record pay out for race discrimination. Halima Aziz, 47, made the remark as she arrived at Bradford magistrates' court only a fortnight after the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington. The Crown Prosecution Service lawyer was immediately suspended after being wrongly accused of inciting a riot between white and Asian youths at the court. She was cleared of the allegations in 2002, but never received an apology from her employers for her suspension. Now an employment tribunal has awarded her £600,000 compensation after concluding there was no evidence to support her treatment by the CPS.
In comparison, the average payout to victims of the 7/7 London attacks is around £7,500, with bereaved relatives receiving £5,500.So, to reprise, if you are a "Bin Laden's friend" and you can argue race discrimination - £600,000. If you are the next of kin of those murdered by Bin Laden's footsoldiers, £7500. Makes you feel real good.
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Reader Comments (13)
Or if your are Bin Laden's family you get first class tickets out of the country !!!!!!
Or if you are a juvenile you swallow every smear painted by the left....
It is a ludicrous award. If she was suspended, I presume it would have been on full pay. Having been cleared and now returning to her work, if she hasn't lost out financially why this 'lottery win' payout. The CPS should appeal.
Colm,
Precisely.
Truely sickening. What is it with the Left's love affair with these towel heads.
Or if you are a juvenile you swallow every smear painted by the left....
No, David. That story is true.
A silly decision by I suspect very silly people.
and it's the ordinary taxpayers who will pick up the bill for this ludicrous 'jackpot'.
>>The CPS should appeal.<<
Colm, if you read the full article, you'll see that the CPS certainly does not want to appeal, and is probably not in a position to. In fact, it's Aziz's lawyers who want to take further legal action on this.
Noel
I am not saying they should appeal against the verdict, only the financial award which I think is exorbitant.
Islam: The pandemic that destroys everything that comes into contact with its virus - including the British sense of fair play.
Totally sickening.
Totally predictable.
Allow me to propose a compromise that will make almost everyone happy
Send the lawyer to prison for 600,000 days and give the cash award to 7/7 victims