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Allison Bailey v Stonewall - Employment Tribunal hearing Thread 10

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ickky · 21/05/2022 10:36

The Tribunal started on 25th April at 10am. If you would like to view online you need to send a request for access as early as possible.

Send an email to

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The subject heading of the email request should read

“MEDIA OR PUBLIC ACCESS REQUEST – Case number 2202172/2020 - Ms A Bailey – 25th April 2022.

Then ask for the pin for the online access.

You will be contacted with instructions on how to observe the hearing.

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There is also live tweeting from

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Abbreviations:

AB: Allison Bailey, claimant
BC: Ben Cooper QC, barrister for AB
SW = Stonewall Equality Limited (respondent 1)
IO = Ijeoma Omambala QC, senior counsel - barrister for SW
RW = Robin White junior counsel to SW - assisting IO
GC = Garden Court Chambers Limited (respondent 2) (GCC would be a better abbreviation)
AH = Andrew Hochhauser QC, senior counsel - barrister for GC
JR = Jane Russell junior counsel to GC - assisting AH
RM= Rajiv Menon QC & SH = Stephanie Harrison QC (jointly respondent 3 along with all members of GC except AB)
EJ = Employment Judge Goodman hearing the case
Panel = any one of the three panel members (EJ and two lay members)

Thread 1 www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4529887-Allison-Bailey-v-Stonewall-Employment-Tribunal-hearing?

Thread 2 www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4542466-allison-bailey-v-stonewall-employment-tribunal-hearing-thread-2

Thread 3 www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4545725-allison-bailey-v-stonewall-employment-tribunal-hearing-thread-3

Thread 4 www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4546945-allison-bailey-v-stonewall-employment-tribunal-hearing-thread-4

Thread 5 www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4548160-allison-bailey-v-stonewall-employment-tribunal-hearing-thread-5

Thread 6 www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4550451-allison-bailey-v-stonewall-employment-tribunal-hearing-thread-6

Thread 7 www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4551757-allison-bailey-v-stonewall-employment-tribunal-hearing-thread-7

Thread 8 www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4552521-allison-bailey-v-stonewall-employment-tribunal-hearing-thread-8

Thread 9 www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4553181-allison-bailey-v-stonewall-employment-tribunal-hearing-thread-9

Allison Bailey - claimant (4-9, 11-13 May)

Witnesses for the claimant:

Dr Nicola Williams - Fair Play for Women (29 April)
Dr Judith Green - A Woman's Place (29 April)
Kate Barker - LGB Alliance (3 May)
Lisa-Marie Taylor - FiLiA (4 May)

Witnesses for the respondents:

Stephen Lue - barrister for GCC (3-4 May)
Zainab Al-Farabi - ex Stonewall (10 May)
Kirrin Medcalf - head of trans inclusion Stonewall (10 May)
Leslie Thomas - barrister at GCC (13 May)
Sanjay Sood Smith - Stonewall (16 May)
Shaan Knan - LGBT consortium - on STAG (16 May)
Rajiv Menon - joint head of chambers (16-17 May)
Maya Sikand - barrister at GCC (17-18 May)
Mia Hakl-Law - HR senior for GCC (18 May)
Judy Khan - barrister at GCC (19-20 May)
Charlie Tennent - clerk at GCC (20 May)
Luke Harvey - clerk at GCC (20 May)
Louise Hooper - Barrister at GCC (20 May)

To come?
David Renton - barrister at GCC (20 May, to continue on 25th May)
Stephanie Harrison - joint head of chambers
Michelle Brewer - barrister at GCC at time, now left and a judge.
David de Menezes - GCC, Head of Marketing

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IdisagreeMrHochhauser · 23/05/2022 12:41

Bingo. Friday evening.

tabbycatstripy · 23/05/2022 12:41

They can’t put the blame on DdM. They employed him and he (however gleefully) only did what they allowed him to do.

FingonTheValiant · 23/05/2022 12:41

But he’s talking about a hammering and a twitterstorm, and admitting that it was only 7 accounts complaining? If I was trying to prove a « hammering » I’d have looked up all replies so I could at least say « there were 672 people joining in a twitterstorm ». Or do they not exist and it was literally 7? 7 accounts!

Clymene · 23/05/2022 12:40

Agreed @Chrysanthemum5. I think JK was doing it too

tabbycatstripy · 23/05/2022 12:40

‘...a Twitter storm generated by the claimant.’

The claimant exercising her fundamental Article 10 rights, being bullied by extremists.

MythicalReasonableTwitterUser · 23/05/2022 12:40

MW- We weren't trying to APPEASE them, we were just trying to stop the HAMMERING

PrelateChuckles · 23/05/2022 12:40

rogdmum · 23/05/2022 12:10

It doesn’t even make any sense. He has occasionally retweeted a GCC tweet and said to read the thread, complete with the little spool of thread emoji. But tweet threads are a series of replies to the original tweet so he would have had to read the replies to know it was a tweet thread!!!!!

Argh, really? This has annoyed me greatly. He must understand how replies work! And what Erish said... that's what a Twitter storm is! A bunch of replies that are obviously public!

TheBiologyStupid · 23/05/2022 12:40

I think this is going to be a key witness session. MW not nearly as clever as he appears to believe.

Chrysanthemum5 · 23/05/2022 12:40

I feel DdM is being set up as a fall guy here

Penguintears · 23/05/2022 12:39

Now he's contradicting himself and saying that it was appropriate to respond on Twitter.
Also saying was not trying to appease people who called AB transphobic but to prevent damage to GC's reputation (repeating of twitter hammering).

MythicalReasonableTwitterUser · 23/05/2022 12:38

MW "we have a need to consider complaints properly".....
well, yes....

IDidntKnowItWasAParty · 23/05/2022 12:38

MW is all over the place

nauticant · 23/05/2022 12:38

BC asking whether GCC's real motivation and actions were appeasing those on twitter who called AB a transphobe.

TheBiologyStupid · 23/05/2022 12:37

Bloody AH just can't keep out of it!

tabbycatstripy · 23/05/2022 12:37

Hardly anyone has ‘seen the like’ of trans activists’ ‘Twitter storms’ before... but what does that tell you? It might tell you that the nature of the complaints is very serious. Or, it might tell you that there are some very unstable people on the internet. Or, it might tell you that this is a very polarised issue.

I don’t think anyone who doesn’t know what ‘gender critical’ means is qualified to make those distinctions.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 23/05/2022 12:37

This is the only thing I can find about their reputation taking a hammering on twitter. Don't know if this is where it started as a phrase, or if it's elsewhere & from the time of the Twitterstorm.

Allison Bailey v Stonewall - Employment Tribunal hearing Thread 10
Penguintears · 23/05/2022 12:36

Just admitted that the standard approach would be an email response to a complaint, not a tweet.

MsMcGonagall · 23/05/2022 12:35

Even I think that BC might have got the stuff he needs out of this witness now

pardonmytits · 23/05/2022 12:33

‘Support employment tribunal’

😂

TheBiologyStupid · 23/05/2022 12:32

IdisagreeMrHochhauser · 23/05/2022 12:30

Everyone seems confused except the Judge.

Yes, her ability to follow the detail is awesome.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 23/05/2022 12:32

Birdsweepsin · 23/05/2022 12:25

"... damage that David de Menezes had never seen the like before in chambers"!

Oh the hyperbole! It's biblical!

I was thinking that they'd probably never encountered this particular group of twitter people in full flow before.

Welcome to our world.

ickky · 23/05/2022 12:31

Gabcsika · 23/05/2022 12:28

He's really struggling now I think.

Not really answering questions properly anymore.

Hangry hour is approaching.

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Penguintears · 23/05/2022 12:31

EJ helping AH with navigating the bundle 😁

Chrysanthemum5 · 23/05/2022 12:30

It's your bundle AH - if it's hard to understand you share the blame

IdisagreeMrHochhauser · 23/05/2022 12:30

Everyone seems confused except the Judge.

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