Following the submission today
of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for
Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary
of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the
public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions
of millions
of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing
public sector workers
who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retirement.
Lord Atkin's famous opinion in Ambard v. Attorney - General for Trinidad and Tobago [1936] AC 322, is apposite: «But whether the authority and position
of an individual judge, or the due administration
of justice, is concerned, No wrong is committed by any
member of the
public who exercises the
ordinary right
of criticising, in good faith, in private or
public, the
public act done in the seat
of justice.