David Connett - Revision history

Claire Robinson at 18:08, 24 March 2009

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David: /* History */

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David at 09:14, 22 January 2009

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==Background==
:Connett first worked at the [[Sunday Times]] in 1985, but left in 1989 after a dispute about the editing of an investigative story involving the deaths of IRA operatives in Gibraltar.<ref>
Stephen Brook '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/apr/20/sundaytimes.pressandpublishing Insight cull 'saved Sunday Times £300,000]' guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 April 2006 15.26 BST </ref>
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+'''David Connett''' first worked at the [[Sunday Times]] in 1985, but left in 1989 after a dispute about the editing of an investigative story involving the deaths of IRA operatives in Gibraltar.<ref>
 Stephen Brook '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/apr/20/sundaytimes.pressandpublishing Insight cull 'saved Sunday Times £300,000]' guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 April 2006 15.26 BST </ref>
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+Connett, who worked as a casual for the newspaper, subsequently took the paper to an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal. He claimed notice pay and redundancy pay as well as £87,000 in lost earnings since he left the paper.<ref>Stephen Brook, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/apr/20/sundaytimes.pressandpublishing Insight cull 'saved Sunday Times £300,000']", The Guardian, 20 April 2006, accessed March 24 2009</ref>
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 :A senior Sunday Times investigative reporter remained a casual employee so that if the paper was caught out it could deny its Insight team was dealing in "black arts" and stolen property, an employment tribunal has heard.
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 :He said the agreement to be a casual employee was made with Dean Nelson, the then editor of Insight, when he joined the paper in July 2003 to work on the investigative team.<ref>Stephen Brook [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/apr/21/sundaytimes.pressandpublishing Insight reporter 'deliberately kept as casual'] guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 April 2006 07.09 BST </ref>
-:He admitted to criticising Sunday Times reporter David Leppard when Caseby had used him as an example of a successful investigative reporter attached to the newsroom.
+Connett won his unfair dismissal case and the ''Sunday Times'' agreed to pay him £30,000. The tribunal ruled that the newspaper had not followed proper procedures in its dealings with Connett.<ref>Stephen Brook, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/apr/21/sundaytimes.pressandpublishing2 Connett wins case]", The Guardian, 21 April 2006, accessed March 24 2009</ref>
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 :Connett told the tribunal in Stratford yesterday that he was a senior member of staff but did not have a contract and was paid as a casual. He did not have a staff email, nor was his name on the Sunday Times staff directory, so that if anyone called for him his listing would not appear on the switchboard.
-:He said the agreement to be a casual employee was made with Dean Nelson, the then editor of Insight, when he joined the paper in July 2003 to work on the investigative team.<ref>Stephen Brook '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/apr/20/sundaytimes.pressandpublishing Insight cull 'saved Sunday Times £300,000]' guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 April 2006 15.26 BST </ref>
+:He said the agreement to be a casual employee was made with Dean Nelson, the then editor of Insight, when he joined the paper in July 2003 to work on the investigative team.<ref>Stephen Brook [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/apr/21/sundaytimes.pressandpublishing Insight reporter 'deliberately kept as casual'] guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 April 2006 07.09 BST </ref>
 :He admitted to criticising Sunday Times reporter David Leppard when Caseby had used him as an example of a successful investigative reporter attached to the newsroom.
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 :Under Nelson's editorship, the investigative unit ran stories about Manchester United's transfer dealings, Mark Thatcher's involvement in an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea, and revelations about the workplace arrangements of Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith.
-:After leaving the Sunday Times Connett said he had worked casually, applied for several jobs without success and had discussed investigative projects with the BBC.<ref>Stephen Brook '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/apr/20/sundaytimes.pressandpublishing Insight cull 'saved Sunday Times £300,000]' guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 April 2006 15.26 BST </ref>
+:After leaving the Sunday Times Connett said he had worked casually, applied for several jobs without success and had discussed investigative projects with the BBC.<ref>Stephen Brook [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/apr/21/sundaytimes.pressandpublishing Insight reporter 'deliberately kept as casual'] guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 April 2006 07.09 BST </ref>
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