A tribunal has ordered the reinstatement of a fingerprint officer to her previous job with the Scottish Police Authority who will now have to pay her 10 years of back pay totalling £300,000. In 2016, the Supreme Court (SC) upheld an ET’s order that it was practicable for Ms McBride (M) to be reinstated to the role in which she had been employed which had involved restricted duties for several years prior to her dismissal in 2007. The Court of Session had held that the ET’s order could not stand as it altered M’s contractual terms, i.e. by placing her back on restricted duties rather than the normal duties under her contract. The SC, however, agreed with M that there was no error because the order put her back in the same contractual relationship as she had before her dismissal. The Daily Record report that when the case returned to the ET, it held that M had a legitimate expectation of reinstatement with back pay calculated at £31,000 pay for the 10-year period 2007 to 2017.

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