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Council employees are bound to behave

Local authority employees are to be bound by a statutory code of conduct under new proposals launched by the Government this week. Council employees will be under a duty to behave professionally and treat others with respect. Also covered by the proposed code are standards, proper stewardship of public money, political neutrality, openness, conflict of interests, fairness in the appointment of staff and declaration of hospitality and ...

News | 27 Aug 2004
"We don't serve wheelchairs"

...legal test case it did not want to be involved in -- but had to fight. The legal cost was high and if we had gone to Europe would have been six figures. The irritating thing was that the facts of the case were not put to the test. If they had, the tribunal would have ruled it out." Cornwall County Council found itself in front of the European Court of Justice over the case of `P', a male to female transsexual who had taken time off in 1992 to embark on a "life test", a one-year period during which a patient planning to undergo an operation for gender reassignment lives in the mode of the proposed ge...

Magazine issue | 1 Jan 2008