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Kent County Council eyes independent legal function

I fear this is a sad reflection of vindictive internal politics at Kent. In a sane authority, the last person to be axed or face a pay cut would be the person that has turned a cost incurring department (Kent's legal team) into a revenue generating one. Yet this is exactly what is being suggested. I suspect that what is happening is that Mr Wild is being punished for having 'stepped out of line' in some way by a cynical, power mad council exec/s punishing him for not towing the line. The result? The public sector will lose one of its best and most innovative legal stars to private practice, meaning slightly higher taxes in the county for slightly less achievement. Expect Kent's revenue generating team to transform into one that pays hefty fees for legal work to private practice because it will have lost its best people to them.

29-Nov-2010

9:50 am