Tribunal finds Dr Rosalind Ranson was unfairly dismissed after speaking out on Manx approach to Covid
The Isle of Man’s former chief medical officer has said her career and reputation were “destroyed”, after she was awarded a record 3.2m settlement over her unfair dismissal for whistleblowing.
The island’s chief minister offered his “deepest apologies” to Dr Rosalind Ranson on Tuesday after a tribunal found that she had been forced out of her job and subjected to “humiliation, bullying, harassment and vilification” for whistleblowing over the Manx approach to Covid-19.
After being awarded 3,198,754 plus 70% of her legal costs, Ranson said she had lost her “belief in essential human kindness” as a result of her ordeal.
It is the single largest win for a whistleblowing case for the British Medical Association, which appointed lawyers to fight Ranson’s case.
The damages awarded were so high because the tribunal found that in defending themselves, some officials from the island’s department of health and social care (DHSC) gave such false accounts that they amounted to “a travesty of the truth”.
The DHSC’s former chief executive, Kathryn Magson, was singled out for “inexcusable” behaviour in misleading the tribunal. The DHSC was criticised for fighting the case on liability on a false basis, “to the substantial detriment of Dr Ranson and at the expense of taxpayers on the Isle of Man”.
Magson set out to “silence” Ranson by spreading false rumours she was “burnt out” in order...
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