SHEFFIELD – Former miners’ leader Arthur Scargill has been awarded £13,000 in damages after he sued a trust fund of the union he led for 20 years.
Mr Scargill (74) sued the National Union of Mineworkers Yorkshire area trust fund over a range of expenses he claimed he was owed when he worked for them in a £26,000-a-year role after he retired as the union’s national president.
Yesterday a judge at Sheffield County Court rejected Mr Scargill’s claim he should have had his phone costs reimbursed. But Judge Robert Moore ruled Mr Scargill was entitled to a car allowance substantially more than the £50 eventually offered him. He awarded him £12,000 in damages and a further £1,000 for temporary loss of union membership. – (Reuters)
