A former Liverpool council director has lost his unfair dismissal case against the local authority.
Nick Kavanagh was the director of regeneration at the city council but was dramatically arrested at the Cunard Building by Merseyside Police as part of the force's Operation Aloft in December 2019. He was subsequently suspended from his chief officer job and was eventually dismissed in March 2021 following a council disciplinary hearing.
Last month, Mr Kavanagh, who has not been charged and denies any wrongdoing, brought an unfair dismissal case against the council to a tribunal, which was held over a number of days at the Liverpool Civil and Family Court. He claimed that the current council chief executive, Tony Reeves, had gone out of his way to construct a case against him and remove him from his job. Mr Reeves and other council witnesses insisted that all proper procedures were followed in dismissing the former top director.
