DUNDEE CITY Council is using an “intimidation tactic” against former teacher Linda Ross in seeking a police inquiry into a medical certificate, an employment tribunal in the city was told.

Solicitor John Muir—who has taken over Mrs Ross’s case following the withdrawal of her previous legal representative Donald Pirie—said the council had got hold of information that should have remained confidential from both legal and medical perspectives and which had given the local authority an unfair advantage.

The matter, surrounding a medical certificate that had allegedly been altered, was now expected to go to the police, although Mr Muir emphasised that there was “not a whiff” of any impropriety in Mrs Ross’s actions and the allegation, he predicted from his experience as a criminal lawyer, would be dismissed by the police in “10 seconds.”

He told employment judge Alexander Bolland QC, “This is clearly designed to intimidate Mrs Ross.”

Mr Muir was critical of events leading up to the council’s decision to pass the medical certificate to the police and added, “In 25 years I have never known anything like it."