The Court of Appeal in Gibb v Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has overturned the High Court's decision that a compromise agreement between the respondent Trust and its former CEO, whom it dismissed following a damning report into hygiene standards at the Trust's hospitals, was made ultra vires. The Court holds that the agreed payment of GBP250,000 was not irrationally generous, even though it exceeded by over GBP100,000 the total amount the CEO could have claimed in respect of notice pay and unfair dismissal. The Trust was entitled to take into account the CEO's good service and likely future difficulties securing alternative employment. Click here for the full story.