The claimant, Captain Lawson, won the maximum allowable amount to be awarded for unfair dismissal, but those acolytes still within the airline in question, particularly some within the training department, still readily recount his case as a "loss", because of the many wild rumours that Captain Lawson was seeking millions.
In fact, Captain Lawson primarily sought to clear his name of the assertion that he was an "unsafe" pilot. An assertion narrated until the bitter end by witnesses that were wholly unqualified to make it. Mr Lawson did clear his name. And so he won. Consequently, he now commands long haul aircraft successfully elsewhere in the UK. He was poorly represented by the national pilot union in his time of neeed. Luckily others picked up the batton in the intervening years that came to pass, and Captain Lawson won his day in court.
But sadly nothing changes. There are multiple claims ongoing in the Employment Tribunal against the airline today. BALPA have recently dropped their support for the only claimant they were funding as the final hearing date approaches. The prominent BALPA officer during the period of time in contention having just defected to a management position at the airline. Assertions of "safety concerns with individual pilots" have again being narrated, by the same manager who was the witness in the Lawson case. Careers have again been ended because of wholly incorrect assertions from an individual that had no qualified experience to make them.
Astute pilots would do well to stop reading Instagram and start reading the real stories like this one.
The truth is out there, as Mulder and Scully said. And the courts are left to uncover more of it.