Into the civil branch of the pop courts, and Sting and his wife Trudie Styler will today learn how much compensation they have to pay that woman who used to work for them as a chef and who, as previously reported, won an unlawful dismissal case against the couple after claiming Mrs Sting treated her unfairly after she became pregnant.
The former cook, Jane Martin, said that Styler, who, she claimed, had a "grandiose ego" and made life difficult for many of the couple's employees, took a particular disliking to her after she became pregnant, and even more so after she took time off because of a stomach bug. She claims Mrs Sting once said: "Who the fuck does she think she is? She's my chef in the UK. She needs to be available if I need her, or she should rethink her position".
As it happened, the couple's management company, Lake House Estate, rethought her position for her, making her redundant claiming they had too many cooks (and presumably that that was spoiling the broth). But they didn't go through the right process for making someone redundant, which is why the couple lost the unfair dismissal case brought against them.
The Stings said the courts decision was "unjust and unfair" (whether Styler said of the judge "who the fuck does he think he is" I don't know) and that they plan to appeal, but meanwhile the compensation process has kicked in and a judge will rule how much the couple must pay later today.