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The age old archaic practice of slopping out requires prison inmates, without access to modern lavatory facilities during the night, to use a pot within their cell which must be emptied, or slopped out, the following morning. In 1996, England and Wales banned this inhumane practice, but it is still present in Scotland prisons at Perth, Peterhead and Polmont Youth Offenders Institution.
Thousands of prison staff members in Scotland are now suing ministers for approximately £4m, claiming that their basic human rights are being violated because they have to watch inmates complete the slopping out chore each morning. The Prison Officers' Association (POA) contends that prison staff has endured harsh working conditions such as health endangerment from extended exposure to the foul odours of human waste. Violent inmates are known to have doused prison staff on occasion with buckets filled with human excrement.

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Landscape gardener Denny McLaughlin, 44, of Galston, Ayrshire was awarded £1816 in compensation by a Glasgow tribunal after saying he was stoned as a result of staff smoking cannabis.
The unfair sacking claim was against Evergreen Landscapes. Evergreen denied McLaughlin's claim that he was sacked because of lodging a personal injury claim against them following an incident involving a vehicle belonging to the business.

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Though they've likely thrown the Premier League Championship away, Roman Romanov, son to Hearts Football Club's millionaire owner Vladmir Romanov, says they do not regret losing the services of manager George Burley and chief executive Phil Anderton.
He says that they have not yet paid out compensation to the two. He told The Sunday Times that, "We are still negotiating the amount of any compensation and why we should be paying someone compensation. If the contract cannot be fulfilled, then why should we pay any compensation?". The public statement is that Mr. Burley left by mutual consent. Romanov squashed recent rumours that they tried to get Burley back. He says, "We know what we talked about."