Excellent result.
They have also been told to pay the costs etc. don't know why they say they've "agreed" to do so.
They weren't told to, this never made it as far as court. This is a settlement agreed at the pre-action letters stage. 'Agreed' is accurate. And they have agreed to pay costs for things like travel, accommodation and cancelled tickets, not legal costs.
#Forstater is solid and says it's unlawful to discriminate against someone for holding GC beliefs. Nottingham released a statement saying 'We cancelled JB because of her GC beliefs.' There weren't even questions about the expression of her belief because she was speaking on a different topic.
Nottingham were so obviously in the wrong, they'd have been insane to let this get as far as court.
So while this is an excellent result, I think it was complete overkill to hire not only a specialist solicitor - appropriate for the pre-action stage - but also no less than three top barristers, two of them KC, from the very start. You only need barristers if/when it goes to court and even the most high profile cases we have seen have not engaged three.
There are two problems with this:
Firstly, the expense. We are all crowdfund fatigued. JB was careful to only ask for donations from those who could comfortably afford to support but even so ...
Secondly, it gives the impression that in order to fight unlawful genderist BS you need a big expensive legal team, which is offputting for ordinary women standing up for their rights. Sometimes that's necessary if it involves a legal precedent or it's a complex case, but this was a slam dunk -'The law says x, you have done y.'
Post-Forstater there will be loads of people who have straightforward legitimate complaints, claims and grievances like this one. We can't fund them all and most don't need to be expensive. It's not at all glamorous but a lot can be can achieved without spending anything through things like ordinary complaints procedures (escalating where necessary to regulators) and workplace grievances. Even straightforward ET's can be done for free. There are no court fees for ET, legal costs are seldom awarded and the tribunal system is set up for self-representing claimants.
IMO we should be doing a lot more to support women to advocate for themselves, rather than endless crowdfunding. We can still do the crowdfunding if/when things get complicated, especially where there's a legal precedent involved.