{"id":19196,"date":"2013-01-09T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/mccririck-sues-channel-4-3m-damages-112403177.html"},"modified":"2013-01-09T14:15:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:15:16","slug":"mccririck-sues-channel-4-for-3m-over-ageism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/mccririck-sues-channel-4-for-3m-over-ageism\/","title":{"rendered":"McCririck sues Channel 4 for &pound;3m over &#8216;ageism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">Former Channel 4 racing pundit John McCririck is seeking \u00a33m in damages &#8211; claiming he was axed by the broadcaster due to his age.<\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-old presenter was among a number of faces axed by the channel after it awarded the production contract to IMG Sports Media, ending its previous agreement with Highflyer.<\/p>\n<p>McCririck spoke out last October at the time of the decision, which he blamed on ageism.<\/p>\n<p>He has now issued a statement setting out his case: &#8220;Channel 4 and production company IMG Sports Media were yesterday each served a letter before action for age discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 29 years with Channel 4 Racing, on a rolling annual contract, I have been sacked without any consultation or cogent explanation. I am 72.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For loss of future earnings, unfair career damaging, public humiliation, stress and mental anguish, I will be seeking \u00a3500,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ageism is illegal. For tens of thousands of employees it has become the feared scourge of our society.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This litigation should prove to be a watershed. There&#8217;s no upper limit to the amount of damages employment tribunals can award under the <strong>Equality Act 2010<\/strong> .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am seeking a further exemplary, punitive \u00a32.5m, part of which will be donated to charitable organisations helping to prevent negative prejudice in the workplace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCririck said he was being represented on a no-win no-fee basis by employment and sports law specialist solicitor Stephen Beverley, of the London West End Cavendish Legal Group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Channel 4 racing pundit John McCririck is seeking &pound;3m in damages &#8211; claiming he was axed by the broadcaster due to his age.<\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-old presenter was among a number of faces axed by the channel after it awarded the production contract to IMG Sports Media, ending its previous agreement with Highflyer.<\/p>\n<p>McCririck spoke out last October at the time of the decision, which he blamed on ageism.<\/p>\n<p>He has now issued a statement setting out his case: &#8220;Channel 4 and production company IMG Sports Media were yesterday each served a letter before action for age discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 29 years with Channel 4 Racing, on a rolling annual contract, I have been sacked without any consultation or cogent explanation. I am 72.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For loss of future earnings, unfair career damaging, public humiliation, stress and mental anguish, I will be seeking &pound;500,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ageism is illegal. For tens of thousands of employees it has become the feared scourge of our society.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This litigation should prove to be a watershed. There&#8217;s no upper limit to the amount of damages employment tribunals can award under the <strong>Equality Act 2010<\/strong> .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am seeking a further exemplary, punitive &pound;2.5m, part of which will be donated to charitable organisations helping to prevent negative prejudice in the workplace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCririck said he was being represented on a no-win no-fee basis by employment and sports law specialist solicitor Stephen Beverley, of the London West End Cavendish Legal Group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}