Ramlogan calls for PSC to be disbanded after Privy Council ruling in ex-prison officer's case

Se­nior Coun­sel Anand Ram­lo­gan is call­ing for the Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) to be dis­band­ed af­ter his client re­mained un­de­feat­ed in an al­most two-decade le­gal bat­tle over be­ing deemed to have aban­doned her job af­ter miss­ing work for sev­er­al months be­cause of in­jury and preg­nan­cy.

Ram­lo­gan made the call yes­ter­day, days af­ter the Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil de­liv­ered its de­ci­sion in what should be the fi­nal law­suit in­volv­ing his client, Fa­vian­na Ga­jad­har, and the com­mis­sion over her ter­mi­na­tion.

In an un­usu­al and un­prece­dent­ed move on Mon­day, five Law Lords de­liv­ered their judg­ment up­hold­ing Ga­jad­har’s ap­peal im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter hear­ing sub­mis­sions at the UK Supreme Court build­ing in Lon­don, Eng­land.