Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Board of Directors insists on holding meeting required by law to be in public without journalist present

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Board of Directors insists on holding meeting required by law to be in public without journalist present

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Board of Directors insists on holding meeting required by law to be in public without journalist present

By John Brace – Editor

John Brace is a governor of Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust but was on leave at the time that the below happened.

On 4th September 2024, I went to the Boardroom at the Postgraduate Education Centre, which is next to Arrowe Park Hospital to observe and report on a meeting in public of the Board of Directors of Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

As you can see from the screenshot below, the Trust website stated this meeting would start at 9 am and I arrived in the Boardroom a few minutes before 9 am.
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Decision on application for court order requesting correction of Jack Beecham’s personal data held by Merseyside Police adjourned

Decision on application for court order requesting correction of Jack Beecham’s personal data held by Merseyside Police adjourned

Decision on application for court order requesting correction of Jack Beecham’s personal data held by Merseyside Police adjourned

                                       

Birkenhead County Court entrance 5th October 2018
Birkenhead County Court entrance 5th October 2018 which was the venue for the hearing

By John Brace – Editor

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Jack Beecham pleads guilty to harassment without violence at Wirral Magistrates Court

Jack Beecham pleads guilty to harrassment without violence at Wirral Magistrates Court

Jack Beecham pleads guilty to harassment without violence at Wirral Magistrates Court

                                                                

Handcuffs
Handcuffs

By John Brace (Editor)
Date Written: 6th July 2023 07:21 (BST)
First publication date: 12th December 2023, 13:02 (GMT)
Updated (changes to last two sentences): 28th March 2024 11:30 (GMT)

Although this blog has previously published pieces on two judicial hearings at the Liverpool Crown Court in November 2022, under the headlines ICO accuse Jack Beecham of breaching bail conditions (24th November 2022) and Trial of Jack Beecham at Liverpool Crown Court delayed due to COVID (8th November 2022) for which he is currently (as of 6th July 2023) on bail in a case in the Liverpool Crown Court brought by ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) which is expected to go to trial later in 2023, this piece below is on a totally different (and unrelated) criminal case brought against Jack Beecham in the Wirral Magistrates’ Court.
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Jack Beecham found not guilty on two counts of alleged breaches of section 170 of the Data Protection Act 2018

Jack Beecham found not guilty on two counts of alleged breaches of section 170 of the Data Protection Act 2018

Jack Beecham found not guilty on two counts of alleged breaches of section 170 of the Data Protection Act 2018

                                                                

Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts (Liverpool Crown Court), Derby Square, Liverpool, L2 1XA (5th January 2019)
Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts (Liverpool Crown Court), Derby Square, Liverpool, L2 1XA (5th January 2019)

By John Brace (Editor)
First publication date: Wednesday 16th August 2023, 13:11 (BST).

On Friday 11th August 2023, at a pre-trial hearing in ICO v Jack Beecham, I was the only journalist present for two pre-trial hearings (one hearing starting at 1.14 pm ending at 2.59 pm, the second from 4.03 pm to 4.59 pm), which HHJ Murray imposed reporting restrictions on.

Although the Judicial College guidance to the judiciary states in general that such reporting restrictions would generally lapse following the trial phase, following an a representation opposing this from the press on Monday 14th August 2023 HHJ Murray decided to continue with such restrictions in the interests of justice.
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Junior doctors strike in England continues following rejection of pay offer by BMA

Junior doctors strike in England continues following rejection of pay offer by BMA

Junior doctors strike in England continues following rejection of pay offer by BMA

                                

Junior Doctors Strike (11th August 2023) Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, Merseyside, UK (Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) taken by John Brace
Junior Doctors Strike (11th August 2023) Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, Merseyside, UK (Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) taken by John Brace

By John Brace (Editor)
First publication date: Monday 14th August 2023, 07:56 (BST).

Junior doctors have been on strike (a picket line outside Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, England, UK is pictured above) at Arrowe Park Hospital (which is run by Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) in a fifth round of industrial action that started on Friday 11th August at 7am (BST) and continues to Tuesday 15th August at 7am (BST).
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