The Employees Committee (Appeals) of Leicestershire Council met on 12 May 2025 to discuss an appeal against dismissal. Councillor Geoff Whittle, Assistant City Mayor - Environment and Transport, was scheduled to chair the meeting. The meeting was scheduled to take place at Leicester City Hall.

Here's what the agenda shows was due to be discussed.

Appeal Against Dismissal

The committee was scheduled to move into private session to consider an appeal against dismissal. According to the agenda frontsheet, the reason for excluding the press and public was that the item contained:

‘exempt’ information, as defined by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, and consequently that the Committee makes the following resolution:-

“that the press and public be excluded during consideration of the following item in accordance with the provisions of Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, because it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information, as defined in Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, namely information relating to an individual, and taking all the circumstances into account, it is considered that the public interest in maintaining the information as exempt outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information”.

The report pack included the appellant’s statement of case, the management’s statement of case, and a collection of background and general information.