Lisa McNally's Extraordinary Threats to High Court + More

The story of Lisa McNally's absurd and malicious claim against me will be coming out in full in the very near future but her attempt to make taxpayers pay her legal costs for a personal claim relating to her Twitter account has made it into Private Eye magazine for the last two editions! As things stand bent Labour Sandwell Council are saying they will pay her costs which are in excess of £100,000 i.e. they are going to f*ck you over (and don't forget McNally is paid well in excess of £100k per year as Director of Public Health).

Leader "lol" Rajbir Singh is now trying to force me to pay for another legal case to prove what they are doing is unlawful in the full knowledge that I have no money. The three Tory MP's in Sandwell must take action here, and I will be sending them a detailed history of what bent Labour are trying to do. As we shall see in a later post, cowardly Singh was personally aware of the illegality of what Council employees were doing. He did nothing, and on top of his other disasters since May has f*cked-up again. The fact that this muppet is STILL trying to shaft me shows his character and the depths he is prepared to go to protect his own arse.

I will be writing below about the collapse of almost the entire "top" management structure in the bent Borough but two of the key players are still in post - Tour and McNally! As we shall see, McNally said she was off if she lost her case, but is still in post.

We know from McNally herself that the claim was a set-up between her, David Stevens and Surjit Tour in late January. I am making various professional conduct and other complaints concerning the actors in this affair but it is very obvious from the paperwork put before the Court that SMBC Solicitors Tour, Lynch and Maher-Smith (at least) had a substantial hand in the way the case was presented. In due course they may have to account for the seriously misguided "professional advice" they gave to McNally. That is not to absolve McNally since her campaign was absolutely vicious - she even wanted an order for me to be jailed if I went with 50m of her when I have never even met her!

The claim was purely personal based on her Twitter account and in the pre-action protocol process McNally sought a draconian "emergency" injunction to be followed by making the injuction "permanent". But the personal nature of the case and her vengeful attack on me was extended to claim £10,000 damages for herself. How the f*ck were Rajbir Singh and Stevens lawfully expecting the taxpayer to pay for her absurd and greedy claim? 

More on this soon but here are the extraordinary threats McNally made to the High Court. She said this in her first statement:

Para 36

My future at Sandwell is now very uncertain. I am unsure how much longer I can continue to live with Mr Saunders' hateful campaign against me. I am upset that one man is providing me with such a negative experience and is leading me to want to give up a job that I once loved and leaving an environment in which I have great working relationships.

Solicitor Lynch at SMBC seems to have been involved in the preparation of the statement. We have already seen that she forgot to serve me with the emergency injunction application and here she used an out of date "statement of truth" when McNally signed to say that her evidence was true (and we shall come back to comment on that at a later date).

Statement of truth:

"I believe that the facts stated in this witness statement are true.

Signed 26th February, 2021.

My solicitor pointed out to Lynch that the Statement of Truth signed by McNally was not compliant with the current Court rules. Accordingly, Lynch revised McNally's Statement as follows:

"I understand that proceedings for contempt of Court may be brought against anyone who makes, or causes to be made, a false statement in a document verified by a statement of truth without an honest belief in its truth.

McNally signed this document on the 11th March, 2021.

The plot by Stevens, Tour and McNally soon began to unravel when my brilliant Solicitor, Mark Lewis of Patron Law, came on the scene and the Director of Public Health soon had to withdraw her malicious "emergency injunction" application (at a cost of several thousand pounds which she says you taxpayers should pay for her).

Of course, there was no "hateful campaign" and McNally was, for reasons that are not clear, advised to proceed. The plotters - with the professional help of Lynch and Maher-Smith - ploughed on to obtain a non-emergency injunction. It is not clear whether McNally has any insight into her own behaviour but she tried to throw the kitchen sink at me in a second statement which she signed as being true and that she was aware she could be in contempt of court if she lied:

Para 33

If my application for an injunction is refused, Mr Saunders will clearly resume his hostility. I can't go through that again and neither can my family. I would at the very least need to leave Sandwell Council and a job I otherwise love. However, since Mr Saunders has previously proved that he is willing to pursue people he doesn't like after they leave Sandwell, I will have to stop working in any position that involves any degree of public profile.

Para 34

My career, and my health, depends on the outcome of this case …

Statement of truth

I understand the proceedings for contempt of court may be brought against anyone who makes, or causes to be made, a false statement in a document verified by a statement of truth without an honest belief in its truth.

Signed by McNally -  10th June, 2021

My own second statement to the High Court said this:

I am very surprised at the Claimant's second statement dated 10th June 2021 that unless she gets her way she will, as a highly-paid professional, not only give up her job but walk away from her profession altogether. These threats to the Court were also made in the Claimant's abortive attempts to seek an injunction in February. The threats are improper. All I can say is that I note that despite the threats in February, the claimant did not carry them out when she did not obtain (or proceed with her application for) an injunction.

Of course, McNally has not left despite also trying to get the taxpayer to pay over £100,000 legal costs for her.

My Solicitor wrote this to bent Labour Sandwell on 12th August:

In your evidence, it was stated that Ms McNally would resign if she did not obtain an injunction. Please confirm that her notice has been tendered and indicates when it will be operative from. If not, please explain why such an unequivocal statement was made to the Court supported by a Statement of Truth? You will appreciate that such is a very serious matter. We suggest that any individuals complicit in such action seek independent advice. We reserve our client's rights against all such individuals if the court has been misled.

Suddenly another person who purports to be a solicitor came on the scene - our old "friend", Maria Price (posts passim and see legal notice below). Price responded with this nonsense on 16 August 2021 in the full knowledge that SMBC Solicitors had drafted and approved McNally's statements:

As regards Ms McNally tending her resignation, your interpretation of her statement is disputed.

Well dear Readers, I will live it to you to decide how you "interpret" McNally's despicable threats!

Why not join the Skidder Facebook Group and have your say? We now have a membership of 960 and it would be good to get to four figures! If you are local, please join "The Sandwell Skidder - Speaking Truth to Power!" Incidentally, some of the Labour-run Facebook Groups won't let you read The Skidder via their pages and so new members in Bearwood and Oldbury are very welcome to join the Group and avoid that particular censorship. 

McNally was right about one thing - if bent or incompetent employees leave Sadders, I will continue to comment on the mess they have left behind - eg. Alison Knight 's (see below) hapless report on Lion Farm remains "on the record" and as some sort of justifaction for the bent deal to destroy the Fields. And I still dream that one day Jan Britton and others will be interviewed under caution by corrupt West Midlands Police about the frauds they claim to have known nothing about.

"The Management Structure - Late 2020"

When Cllr "Red" Yvonne inexplicably appointed Stevens as Chief Executive that deeply ambitious man set about forming a new "top" "lol" Management Structure. At the time the website listed 11 top managers. Where are they now?

David Stevens - Chief Exec - Left after a botched sacking by "Leader" Rajbir Singh. How come even Red Yvonne could manage to sack Jan Britton without compensation yet Singh has allegedly cost us taxpayers around £300,000? Plenty to come on Stevens but this joker had to go!

Darren Carter - The Money Man - arse-licker extraordinaire Carter inexplicably rose to the top finance post but was suspended for, inter alia, his absolutely appalling behaviour in the "suspended secretaries" saga (blogs passim and see legal notice below). He was booted out (although in the incestuous gravy train of crap local government he is believed to be raking in the cash again at Reading Council).

Stuart Lackenby- Stevens's right-hand man - bit of an odd one this. We saw in this blog (yet again see legal notice below) how Lackenby was doing business with bent Labour Sadders whilst working at Dudley Council. Stevens flatly refused to comment on the allegations (and I put them no higher than that) that he and Lackenby had once been in business together. Neither confirmation nor denial. Lackenby seemingly left of his own accord and now works for South Northamptonshire Council.

Neil Cox - Stevens, Lackenby and Cox were said to be a team and Cox is last man standing. Inexperienced at this level though is said to work well with Tammy Stokes (see below).

Lisa McNally - it remains to be seen whether she will do as she said in her High Court statements and leave.

Lesley Hagger - as Sandwell Children's Trust falls into disarray (again) it is difficult to assess Hagger's achievements at Sadders but she left last week with her fingerprints all over the Report recommending the bent £22m SEND taxi contract deal to Azeem Hafeez. (Incidentally two employees are named on the report and one of them has left too. All very odd.)

Surjit Tour - Head of "Legal" "Lol" - this blog has been campaigning for this guy's instant dismissal without compensation for a long time. A detailed dossier is in preparation about his conduct of a whole range of matters. He simply has to go - and soon.

Chris Ward - Seemingly OK and has "retired".

Alan Caddick - most of the top brass [sic] wouldn't dream of living in Sh*thole Sandwell and this chap lived locally in, er, Sunderland! It is said he didn't want to go but Stevens got rid.

Tammy Stokes - an unknown quantity. Is she ready for the top flight? If she wore trousers like her friend Neil would she have reached the top tier? Will she now?

Dr Alison Knight - last but not least! A non-medical "doctor" who featured regularly in the blog (posts passim and see legal notice below) given some of her disastrous performances (at both her spells in the bent Borough). She has sought revenge on the Skidder by providing "evidence" in McNally's case against me. She failed to win a job at Stevens's top table after having to "re-apply" for a top job but objects to it being said that she was "booted" out. Happily the local authority gravy train continues to reward her handsomely. She has been given a six-months contract at Croydon to sort out fallout from the "Regina Road" scandal. London News reported that she would cost the bankrupt Labour Council £104,250 for six months work! How well is she doing? Note this recent post from the UK's best local authority blog, Inside Croydon:

That's seven of eleven of the "top" bosses gone and two of the four left are Tour and McNally! When on earth is the Government going to step in and sort this bloody shambles out?

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