I object most strongly to this bullying from HOL Towers.

Do we really think his wife doesn't know that he's got wandering eyes and hands? She will know and she won't care. It's an occupational hazard.

NDAs were originally designed to protect companies and their 'trade secrets'. However, that morphed into them being used by the fantastically rich to keep the less well off quiet.

The fact someone may sign an NDA and take a payment, to my mind, holds little significance if the NDA is being used to to cover up an act that is illegal under law. Like, for example, sexual assault.

If someone was being repeated bullied by him in the workplace their seems little recourse for action apart from the HR Dept. Anything legal (if you can afford it) puts them up against, in this case, Greens top notch lawyers. What evidence could you get to support it? So options-wise taking a payment in exchange for an NDA is maybe the only real option.

The fact they signed them doesn't make them complicit in whatever Green is being accused of.

So good for Peter Hain.

When the time comes, I want die just like my Dad - at peace and asleep.
Not screaming and terrified.
Like his passengers.

Was that a thought for the day? Or written on a shop sandwich board on the pavement or something?

COYP

Agreed. But I think he's made a mockery of the NDA law, not the Court.

And in this case, not a bad thing.

The Appeal court applies the law as it stands.

If this was a case of a NDA being signed to protect, for example, the copyright infringement of the next fashion line then I'd say Hain was 'bang out of order'. But its not. These NDAs protect him from serious, serious allegations.

I maintain that an NDA should not be used to protect those accused of doing something that is currently illegal (like racial abuse for example). What else should an NDA protect a person from? Fraud? Embezzlement? Murder? (ok, Im overdoing it here )

As I say , the appeal court are correct in their application of the law. But I think Hain (as a representative of the body that makes those laws) is, in this case, right to shine a light on the law the Court was applying.

When the time comes, I want die just like my Dad - at peace and asleep.
Not screaming and terrified.
Like his passengers.

A Labour MP has called Hain a hero, I would call him a coward for hiding behind immunity. If he really wanted to make a stand he should have stepped outside Parliament. This smacks of party politics.

I agree with your assessment on what NDA's should be used for however it is for Parliament to make law and the PM has previously indicated that this will be looked at.

The court was at pains to point out that the victims had taken independent legal advice before accepting large sums and that this will impact on their creditability.

The real issue here is that the press feel empowered to name and same any public figure who has allegations thrown against them and don't like it when they can't. As with Cliff Richard and other celebrities falsely accused their names should be private until they are charged by the police.

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