DRINK-DRIVE SHERIFF BACK WITH A pounds 74,000 JOB.A SHERIFF who resigned from the bench in disgrace DISGRACE. Ignominy, shame, dishonor. No witness is required to disgrace himself. 13 How. St. Tr. 17, 334; 16 How. St. Tr. 161. Vide Crimination; To Degrade. after being caught drink driving has landed another top judicial post. Mark Sischy is working as a pounds 74,464-a-year chairman of Scotland's employment tribunals Employment Tribunals are inferior courts in Great Britain which have statutory jurisdiction to hear many kinds of disputes between employers and employees. The most common disputes being concerned with unfair dismissal and discrimination. . He was banned from driving for 30 months in May, 1997, after being caught nearly three times the limit, and quit his job as a Glasgow sheriff. Within six months he had returned to the judicial system as a part-time chairman of employment tribunals, at pounds 332 a day plus expenses. But he has now been promoted to a full-time job in Dundee with a salary which is met by the taxpayers. Their caseloads can include drink-related incidents given as evidence at hearings of claims for unfair dismissal unfair dismissal n → despido improcedente unfair dismissal n → licenciement abusif unfair dismissal unfair n → . The vacancy VACANCY. A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases where an office is not filled. 2. By the constitution of the United States, the president has the power to fill up vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate. was not advertised, as it would be in England, it was only circulated among the small pool of part-time chairmen in Scotland. Candidates instead show their interest to Doris Littlejohn, president of Employments Tribunals (Scotland) or the country's leading judge, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, the Lord Justice-General. In England, the Lord Chancellor's rules bar any criminal behaviour, including drink driving, as unacceptable for a tribunal A general term for a court, or the seat of a judge. In Roman Law, the term applied to an elevated seat occupied by the chief judicial magistrate when he heard causes. tribunal n. chairman. Mr Sischy refused to comment. |
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