[2025] UKUT 00138 (LC)

The account that follows is not in dispute except where we indicate to the contrary. It is based upon the parties’ agreed chronology, upon facts agreed by the expert witnesses, and on the evidence of two witnesses of fact: Mr Stuart Neil, who was from 2000 the claimant’s Operations Manager at WWH and later its Business Manager for Rail until he retired in January 2022, and Mr Damien Allen who has worked for the claimant since 2005 and has been its Business Manager for Rail since April 2021, sharing the role with Mr Neil until January 2022.