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Arthur Scargill wins claim against NUM Arthur Scargill wins £13,000 damages in dispute with NUM
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Arthur Scargill, the former president of the National Union of Mineworkers, has won a partial victory in a legal dispute with his union. Former National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) president Arthur Scargill has been awarded £13,000 in damages after he sued a trust fund of the union.
A judge has ruled that Mr Scargill's contract of employment with the union was legal and enforceable. Mr Scargill, 74, sued the NUM Yorkshire Area Trust Fund (YATF) over a range of expenses he claimed he was owed.
At Sheffield County Court, the judge found that Mr Scargill was entitled to a car allowance of £12,000. Judge Robert Moore ruled at Sheffiled County Court that he was entitled to a car allowance and awarded him £12,000.
However, the judge rejected Mr Scargill's claim that his phone bills should have been paid by the union. He also awarded Mr Scargill £1,000 in damages because he had been denied NUM membership during the dispute.
The judge has also ruled that the 74-year-old former union leader had been denied benefits of union membership for a period and awarded him £1,000 damages in respect of that. 'Shabby' treatment
The judgement is continuing, following a two-day hearing in Sheffield last week. However, he rejected the former union boss's claim that he should have had his telephone costs reimbursed by the trust.
Mr Scargill was president of the NUM until 2002, and led the union during the year-long miners' strike from 1984 to 1985. Mr Scargill was president of the NUM until 2002 and led the union during the year-long miners' strike from 1984 to 1985.
But in 2010 he was told he no longer qualified for full financial membership.But in 2010 he was told he no longer qualified for full financial membership.
Judge Moore told the court that when the trustees began to question Mr Scargill's contract "there was a clear agenda both to disown him and to pay him as little as possible".
Mr Scargill's barrister, Timothy Pitt-Payne QC, said the trust treated his client "in a thoroughly shabby way and in a way that was quite inappropriate, given his long and distinguished career within the union".