A consultant who lost a whistleblowing claim against Sellafield is fighting a demand to pay £40,000 costs.
Alison McDermott lost an employment tribunal against her dismissal from the Cumbrian nuclear site and was ordered to pay costs, but a second judge found aspects of her case “troubling”.
A new tribunal is now deciding whether her claim had been “unreasonable”.
Lawyers for Sellafield said Ms McDermott made “baseless” claims and the case cost taxpayers £330,000.
Ms McDermott, from near Ilkley, West Yorkshire, worked as a human resources (HR) and diversity consultant at the Cumbrian coastal site for several months in 2018.
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