By George Torr & Joe LockerA council spent more than £10,000 on legal fees and handed out £570 in compensation after "unlawfully" banning an event hosted by an author.
Following three months of pre-action correspondence, the parties reached agreement on mutually acceptable terms, including an apology, according to theIn October, the council apologised to Ms Bindel and admitted it had acted "unlawfully" in cancelling her talk.
Nottingham City Council are simply unfit to rule. They have neither financial acumen or common sense and should resign en-bloc to avoid further wasting of public funds. They could not organise a 'visit to Shipstone's'.
Another council using our money inappropriately. These councillors live in cloud cuckoo land ..
Oh dear, clearly some staff need training on equality and human rights legislation. And the right to free speech. Was avoidable.
Yet another calamity from probably the worst city council in the country
And I bet my council tax will go up the full 5% in March. Woeful city council