DICKSON’S DEFENCE

BY ALAN OSBORNCHRIS Dickson, the Executive counsel of the Accountant's Joint Disciplinary Scheme, spoke powerfully in defence of the European Commission's sacked chief accountant Marta Andreasen at her disciplinary hearing in Brussels last month, Accountancy Age can reveal.He represented her pro bono publico, appealing for her reinstatement in front of the entire outgoing Commission, a call that fell on deaf ears, with her former employers later ordering her dismissal. A leaked Brussels transcript of last month's hearing confirmed that none of the EU ...


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