Councillor Esmond Jenkin's legal challenge to Cotswold District Council thrown out

6:00pm Friday 22nd March 2013 in News By Ian Craig

A LEGAL action by outspoken Cotswold Water Park councillor Esmond Jenkins against Cotswold District Council has been thrown out by a judge.

Cllr Jenkins (Lib Dem) took the action against CDC, claiming the authority should have provided him with legal cover during his Standards for England hearing in January 2012, but the judge at Oxford County Court threw out the case on Monday, saying it had very little chance of success.

Last year’s hearing was held following a number of accusations that Cllr Jenkins had bullied and intimidated CDC officers and employees of developer Watermark.

Although he was found to have breached the member’s code of conduct, the majority of accusations were dismissed.

Cllr Jenkins told the Standard he intended to appeal.

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walterparkgate says...
7:14pm Fri 22 Mar 13

Never mind Ezzie, maybe the City of London police investigation will prove you right.

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dopey1 says...
10:53pm Fri 22 Mar 13

Let me think about this. CDC had sight of documents that detailed the plotting between Dennis Grant and Watermark over land deals. CDC then called in the Standards For England inquisitors, to investigate one of their number, who publicised and tried to expose this behind the scenes manouvering and didn't think to cover all the costs of taking this action.
Then a judge decides that this is all OK!

This stinks just as much as the persecution of NHS whistleblowers!!!

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Crispin Mount says...
7:44pm Mon 25 Mar 13

Time for those 'sensitive' Cotswold Water Park Minutes from July 2010 to be released which place a CDC Officer and a Tory CDC Councillor at the meeting where sub-agreements were discussed.

Funny how they never made it to the Internal CDC Review, nor the Garbutt Inquiry nor the trumped up Standards Board for England investigation.

Funny that.

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dopey1 says...
6:21pm Tue 26 Mar 13

Both CDC and GCC had "observers" at the Water Park Society Meetings. They must have "observed" these sub-agreements being made and "observed" what was written in the minutes of the meetings. Surely they reported back to the organisations that they represented that something was amiss? Or was all going to plan?
Why can't they remember any of what went on? So many questions. So few answers.

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