Ex-Education minister threatens legal action

OUTGOING Education minister Carol Steere has threatened to use the courts to settle her disputes with former colleagues, deputies and the Guernsey Press.

In a dramatic day inside and outside the States, during which Robert Sillars was elected as her replacement, Deputy Steere, pictured, also revealed she had made a code of conduct complaint against Deputy Jane Stephens.

She called for a judicial review into the events that led to the critical review of the department's services in the States yesterday, although she could not say what it would be directed at or how the process would operate.

Guernsey Press editor Richard Digard said: 'Our disclosures were vindicated by the Mulkerrin report commissioned by the Policy Council and by the Trevor Robinson report, yet Deputy Steere insists it's only her version of events that's correct. The record shows it differently.'