He stuck closer than 'brothers'
17th September 1983, Page 56
17th September 1983
Page 56
Page 56, 17th September 1983
— He stuck closer than 'brothers'
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IT IS STRANGE that a trade union should have refused to help a lorry driver who was dismissed by Rank Hovis allegedly for falsifying a tachograph record, yet a workmate who took the trouble to master intricate industrial law and represent him secured him £7,500 compensation. Robert Richards lost his case before an industrial tribunal but his persistent advocate, David Philmore, a fellow driver, pressed on to appeal and won. The court decided that the chart had been wrongly inserted in the tachograph by accident and that Richards, who, incidentally, was £12,000 in debt, had been unfairly dismissed.
Philmore risked being dubbed a barrack-room lawyer, with the attendant stigma, but he showed himself to be a true "soldier's friend."