{"id":108714,"date":"2021-01-18T13:18:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=108714"},"modified":"2021-01-18T13:18:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T13:18:18","slug":"academic-loses-claim-man-who-spurned-her-had-a-role-in-her-redundancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/academic-loses-claim-man-who-spurned-her-had-a-role-in-her-redundancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic loses claim man who spurned her had a role in her redundancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>University academic loses tribunal claim that head of department who spurned her repeated advances for a romantic relationship played a part in her losing her job<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ruxandra Anghel and Dr David Westley dated briefly but then called it off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr Westley wanted to reconcile with his wife, but Ms Anghel still pursued him<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ms Anghel was left &#8216;heartbroken&#8217; by Dr Westley, an employment tribunal was told<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When made redundant she suggested he had been instrumental in her departure<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tribunal dismissed her claims that Dr Westley tried to develop a &#8216;work with benefits&#8217; relationship with her, and ruled he played no part in her losing her job<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/01\/18\/11\/38146174-9159137-image-m-11_1610968240090.jpg\" height=\"391\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Ruxandra Anghel and Dr David Westley (pictured) dated briefly but called it off because he wanted to reconcile with his wife<\/p>\n<p>An academic who\u00a0<span>pursued a senior colleague for a romantic relationship then blamed him when she lost her job has lost her tribunal claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Psychologist Ruxandra Anghel and Dr David Westley dated briefly but called it off because he wanted to reconcile with his wife, a tribunal heard.<\/p>\n<p>But despite him telling her several times that they could only have a professional relationship, she continued trying to persuade him to give her a chance, the panel heard.<\/p>\n<p>On one evening she texted him, saying: &#8216;I&#8217;m coming over at yours later. Get a nice bottle of wine. There will be no talking.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>When he asked her if she was being serious, she replied: &#8216;I don&#8217;t make such jokes. It is not my style. I&#8217;m a grown woman. I expressed my desire. I was hoping for a more elegant response.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Anghel was left &#8216;heartbroken&#8217; by Dr Westley, the employment tribunal was told.<\/p>\n<p>And when she was made redundant from her role at London&#8217;s Middlesex University, she made a complaint against him, suggesting he had been instrumental in her departure.<\/p>\n<p>An employment tribunal has now dismissed her claims that Dr Westley &#8211; now the head of the university&#8217;s psychology department &#8211; had tried to develop a &#8216;work with benefits&#8217; relationship with her.<\/p>\n<p>And it ruled he had played no part in her losing her job.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/01\/18\/11\/38147142-9159137-image-a-12_1610969879812.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>An employment tribunal has now dismissed her claims that Dr Westley &#8211; now the head of the London&#8217;s Middlesex University&#8217;s (pictured) psychology department &#8211; had tried to develop a &#8216;work with benefits&#8217; relationship with her. And it ruled he had played no part in her losing her job\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hearing in Watford was told that Ms Anghel had been employed by the university&#8217;s Department of Psychology as a graduate academic assistant in 2014 after achieving a first class degree in the subject.<\/p>\n<p>As part of that role she found herself working with Dr Westley &#8211; who had taught her as an undergraduate &#8211; on a scheme to help support students&#8217; well being.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2015, following a social occasion with colleagues, they went for a drink on their own and kissed, the tribunal heard.<\/p>\n<p>Although the hearing was told Ms Anghel was open to a romantic relationship, Dr Westley told her a week later he had only just separated from his wife and was not certain the marriage was over.<\/p>\n<p>But in April the couple started &#8216;dating&#8217; and on one occasion went back to her home, where he cut short an intimate encounter, the panel heard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They ended up lying on top of the bed together,&#8217; the tribunal heard. &#8216;(Ms Anghel) unbuttoned Dr Westley&#8217;s shirt, but he did not remove it. (She) removed her dress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Shortly after (her) dress was removed, Dr Westley decided that he did not want to go any further and he decided to go home, which is what he did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Their intimacy went no further, either on this night, or on any later occasion.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The panel &#8211; headed by employment judge Patrick Quill &#8211; was told that in July 2015, the couple agreed not to carry on with their relationship. However, that October Ms Anghel emailed him, asking him to reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My wish for myself right now is to settle down and start a family,&#8217; she wrote. &#8216;Of course, the only way to have that is by starting a relationship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are a few gentlemen who are interested in having that with me, but giving the friendship and feelings I built for you in the past four years, in my heart I was hoping that it would be you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Westley replied to say that even if his marriage was not salvageable he did not feel he would be able to commit to a serious relationship for &#8216;quite a while&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m sorry if I had implied anything else was the case &#8211; l have tried to explain this in the past but perhaps I hadn&#8217;t been as clear as I thought,&#8217; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Anghel and Dr Westley continued to work together and in 2016 she was promoted to a more senior role.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2017 &#8211; a month after he told her he regretted that their only communication was now professional &#8211; she texted him the &#8216;there will be no talking&#8217; message.<\/p>\n<p>And in November following an argument over a reference he had written her she told him she was considering leaving the university because he had &#8216;broken her heart&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>That month she sent him a &#8216;closure&#8217; email.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In the email, (she) sought to suggest that she was pulling away from Dr Westley and that he believed that he would be upset,&#8217; the tribunal judgement said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;However, our finding is that it was Dr Westley who had made clear that he did not wish to have a romantic or sexual relationship and it was (she) who was upset by that stance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In the email, (she) referred to having various fabulous memories of Dr Westley and stated she had enjoyed their first kiss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She mentioned a more recent occasion on which they had had juice and a cigarette, and he had waited with her at the bus stop. She said that that had been beautiful.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The following year Ms Anghel&#8217;s contract at the university was not renewed as part of a cost-cutting exercise.<\/p>\n<p>She launched a formal grievance, claiming that Dr Westley&#8217;s behaviour had been inappropriate and accusing him of harassing her.<\/p>\n<p>However, the university dismissed the allegations along with any suggestion he had been involved in her losing her job.<\/p>\n<p>And the tribunal agreed, finding her claims of sex discrimination and unfair dismissal to be unwarranted.<\/p>\n<p>It ruled that the romantic contact the couple had in 2015 was consensual and that afterwards Dr Westley had never sought to rekindle the relationship, despite her claims to the contrary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9159137\/Academic-loses-tribunal-claim-man-spurned-played-losing-job.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University academic loses tribunal claim that head<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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