DESTROYED IN COURT
0403 TRIBUNAL SUMMARY
[This is the first section of the initial evidence I gave to the Employment Tribunal. As such, it - and the following sections – describe in great detail, and with greater honesty than otherwise might have been possible, exactly what happened to me when Roland Kaye destroyed my career – and my life!]
DAVID MERCER versus OUBS
SUMMARY OF THE KEY EVENTS: When all the very extensive evidence is pulled together, what is revealed is a relatively simple story. Thus, in 1998 I put together a confidential grievance to the previous VC, which detailed the catalogue of whistle-blowing followed by bullying and defamation; in which Roland Kaye was intimately involved. The result of this, and my public whistle-blowing campaign against the then Dean’s plans to gain a third term unopposed, was that the Dean did not even stand for re-election. When, after a year or so in office, I was convinced that the new Dean – Roland Kaye – had stopped the bullying, and forgetting his prominent role in the 1998 grievance, I foolishly gave him a copy of this confidential material. The result, which he described in writing later, was that he immediately saw the danger to himself of my whistle-blowing. Accordingly, his attitude changed and the bullying recommenced – this time overtly and at a greater level than before. In addition, as my workload on the new Masters in Marketing grew to unfeasible levels, he ignored my demands for additional help – even as that originally provided was switched elsewhere. Moreover, despite the OU doctor’s demands that my workload and stresses should not be increased, he went so far as to even refuse to accept my input to him as my line manager. The net result was that my diabetes, which was by then insulin-dependent, became seriously more unstable and I was diagnosed as having an occluded cardiac artery. Despite the OU doctor’s frequent demands, no allowance was made by OUBS management for these increasing disabilities, and indeed extra pressure was added and my medical problems consequently escalated. More specifically, the Dean then unlawfully rigged the selection processes for the new Chair in Marketing, so that I was unfairly excluded from going before the OU’s Professorial Selection Board. As part of these machinations he even promoted a vicious libel against my professional competence. When I started to institute a grievance, and brought in the AUT, he became so angry that he even wrote to Personnel Department saying I was ‘poisonous’ and was in a ‘questionable mental state’. Furthermore, in this key email he said he was going to use an action for defamation to financially destroy me. A month later, in the resulting face to face conference, he tried to do just that; but was foiled when I publicly withdrew the innocuous statement he was complaining of. He then switched tack to denying me my agreed study leave; which he knew I was relying on to convalesce from the serious work overload and restore my mental state. In this he finally was successful, and I immediately had a breakdown with severe depression and anxiety. Having found my Achilles heel, he continued this tack through my resulting sick leave, and the following litigation. When I still refused to be forced out of the university, he then authorised the use of a false report of my retirement, which had clearly been denied by me, to terminate my employment. The outcome of all these actions is that both my career and private life have been destroyed.
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