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How joke bin Laden aside from this woman ended in disaster for CPS
How joke bin Laden aside from this woman ended in disaster for CPS
Last Modified: 05 Sep 2008
By:
Simon Israel
Six hundred thousand pounds compensation, another half a million pounds of taxpayers money in legal costs - and all for failing to apologise for racial discrimination against a Muslim lawyer who made a throwaway remark about Osama bin Laden.
Halima Aziz has won a record pay out against her employers, the Crown Prosecution Service, and an employment tribunal has laid responsibility with the very top of the organisation.
Ms Aziz was suspended without, in the words of the judgement, "a shred of evidence".
Her lawyer said it called into question the service's ability to prosecute race cases and demanded an independent inquiry.
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