If anyone’s interested the Judgment from a Preliminary Hearing on his Employment Tribunal Claim is available online.He made a failed application to add a whistleblowing detriment claim to his Unfair Dismissal Claim and to add Dr Xia as an additional Respondent. The Employment Judge was very critical of his evidence in support of his application.The Unfair Dismissal Claim itself will be heard separately.
https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/mr-k-wyness-v-aston-villa-football-club-ltd-1303946-2018
I called Wyness out as soon as I saw the Villa engine bollocks.
Wyness might have been okay at Everton (though you'd argue he never found a way to take out that ceiling they hit and many of the avenues he pursued annoyed the fans) but it's not a surprise they didn't look like progressing as a club until after he left.
Central to Wyness's case is his allegation that he made a series of 'protected disclosures', one in October 2017 and the other on June 4 last year, a day before he was suspended.In a series of private preliminary hearings, the tribunal has heard that Wyness sought legal advice 'when he thought the Respondent was in danger of insolvency due to an unpaid tax demand'.It is understood that he fell out with the Chinese former Villa owner Dr Tony Xia after the 2018 play-off final after he raised the possibility of the club going into administration.The most recent accounts for the club's new holding company NSWE UK states that last summer it 'experienced significant liquidity problems'.Wyness claims that Aston Villa 'breached the implied duty of trust and confidence' and that his dismissal was 'solely or principally caused' by his whistleblowing.Legal documents seen by Sportsmail show that Aston Villa deny any such disclosures were made.A hearing is due to start on November 4 and has been listed to last nine days, but the parties have been locked in this employment battle for over a year already.At a private preliminary hearing in February, Wyness tried to get Xia added in as a second respondent, but this was dismissed.He also requested that Xia be made to provide all WhatsApp chat data relevant to proceedings, but this was also dismissed.The outline of Wyness's case says: 'The claimant alleges he made a series of protected disclosures, the first of which is said to have taken place on 10 October 2017 and the last on 4 June 2018.'The claimant claims that his suspension by the respondent on 5 June 2018 and other conduct of the respondent around this time amounted to a breach(es) of the implied duty of trust and confidence and that this was solely or principally caused by the making of one or more of the protected disclosures..' Wyness' legal representatives declined to comment on the content of the disclosures.Aston Villa declined to comment.
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