A crisis-hit London town hall is preparing to take "unprecedented" legal action in a bid to claw back some of the £437k payoff its former chief executive received before the council was forced to declare bankruptcy.
Jo Negrini got the substantial payout when she was laid off as chief executive of Croydon Council in August 2020, just months before the local authority admitted it could not set a balanced budget and would need a Government bailout.
