Tax firm books "thrown away"
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Nixon GO The most predictable secretarial slip since Nixon's secretary wiped his Watergate tapes was announced to Lord Denning in the High Court last week.
Last year the Inland Revenue raided the offices of Rossminsters, the banking group, and took away van loads of papers for investigation.
Denning-in one of his famous pro-employer rulings declared that the tax raid was 'military style' and therefore illegal and ordered the papers to be returned.
The House of Lords last December overturned that decision. Two weeks before they did so the new secretary to tax consultant Roy Tucker "threw away" diaries that would have had to be returned.
Denning, who set up the unfortunate mistake in the first place, accepted the explanation, and fined Tucker £1,000 for contempt, a sum it is thought he is well able to afford.
The £6,500-a-year secretary Lynette Binks, said afterwards:
"He is a super boss and I am still working with him."