Lorna Young v Manchester City Council, Employment Tribunal, May 2026

So you sent new disclosures to your solicitors last Thursday.

Sunday night they dump 200 pages onto the claimants legal team.

Lovely 🥰 behaviour from a City Council with millions of pounds of resources, all these employees and paying out the wazoo for this legal case.

The stupidity of them not settling gets me every time.

I hope their insurers are watching.

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NR Sent tweets by SH
SN Sh sent screenshots re commonalities between accounts and tweet screenshots x2. p1376 and the email from SH.
The attachment of Dec 23rd, was screenshots of pics of commonalities between LYs personal account and GG and a couple of tweets

NR Then she sends another email about sending 3 hrs going through.
NS A w-transfer from SH w a signif no of tweets
NR We dont have that, the attachments
SN I dont have the original. I thought the commonalities and
NR We dont have we transfer or attachments to email

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[SN affirms]

[J requests lights off for LY but she says she's ok sat at the back]

AM Enters SN's witness statement (WS) I have no Qs but NR will

NR Good morning. We've had further disclosure from u. When sent to yr solicitors
SN Various times. Those were sent at end of week, Thurs I think

NR They contain Cs name. Why not produced the first time
NS They shld have been. I assumed they were included and was reminded of some recently and they were sent to me

NR When did u receive tweets and which ones. I have 3 sets from GG account

NR I dont think we'll need to delay. Some of the 200 pages is relevant but not all.

J We'll need printing odd if are as a pdf. Anything else re the docs or anything else?

AM We have thinned the list of issues

NR Nothing from me

J Calls next witness, Sarah Narachi

NR I'm not sure we have full disclosure. Some are v relevant and covered how to Ix. I wld like the R's bullish statement retracted.

There are 200 pages. I wld have used them to reinforce my Qs to JJ. Once I've fully reviewed I can reinforce my case put to JJ.

NR There's also disclosure by others eg Miss Narici so I might be clunky in my cross.

No, I dont want an adjournment and we havent discussed these docs yet. I dont think I have new Qs arising from these docs today so will have to play by ear.

J You're not seeking recall witnesses
AM No, just correcting info

J Do you NR?
NR No I dont. We received late last night at 8.30pm so didnt look until 10pm as on a train. I cldnt download it due to the format. It discloses docs that shld have been disclosed before as highly relevant

More discovery mid trial….. the warning over you’re under oath to the witnesses had an effect yesterday. 👀

We are in remotely and counsel are arriving now.

J Reminds remote remote viewers to not record

AM We sent a signif amount of disclosure yday. I have no comments on this but I cross exam the C where I said the R hadnt looked at GG tweets, but I now see an open access search was made of GG and Nick McMillan screenshot some tweets

Will post for as long as I can today. Have a few other commitments so if not posting please step in... or I will collect on my return.

JaneDoeKeepsReceipts is a ⭐

(for those of you who are following along - I haven't been miscounting days ...

The full merits hearing is taking place in Manchester from 11 - 22 May 2026. Monday 11 May was a reading day.

So we are on day 6 of the Tribunal, but day 5 of evidence.)

Four more days of trial so worth trying for remote access if of interest.

Ix - investigation
GG - galwaygirl, the C's anonymous twitter account

JJ - Jo Johnson, co-worker
SH - Sarah Hurden, co-worker who submitted complaint against C
AS - Abida Sultan, also submitted complaint against C
SK - Sharmila Kar, co-worker

GI(T) - gender identity (theory)
TRAHR - Trans Rights are Human Rights motion
Cx - complaint

Monday 18 May 2026
Morning session

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Good morning.

We will shortly be live tweeting day 6 of the employment tribunal of LY vs Manchester City Council (MCC). LY holds gender critical views and is Catholic and was formerly Equality Team Manager at MCC. She was dismissed from this role due to her social media content.

For those interested in remote access, I've been advised:

• Contact the Tribunal at [email protected].
• Include Lorna Young v MCC in the subject & body
• "Request to observe remotely” in the subject heading to request a remote link.

Don’t forget Julie Bindel too.

Burn the witches.

The usual HR squeaks

I don’t know who approved it, I was only there to advise.

Someone said she didn’t align to MCC values and sacked her… pray who?

Ill put in a call to the Tribunal this morning.

Definitely can see that the missing discovery is hiding a multitude of sins.

When Lorna’s direct report emails to say something like it’s horrible to associate with someone who is gender critical and Lorna’s line manager endorses that…

The barrister made a clear link to saying it horrible to associate with a gay person or a Muslim.

They literally cannot see how utterly prejudiced they are - and these are the diversity, equality and inclusivity people.

Only inclusive of genital multilated people and fetish dress wearers is quite a niche area.

I haven’t followed it since Lorna was on the stand last week, good to read Jo Phoenix’s piece. I will catch up with TT.

I haven't read Tribunal Tweets, just Jo phoenix's substack article, but blimey 😦 The person she line managed went after her because she liked a couple of tweets by "bad" women such as JKR. These cases never fail to astound me.

Yes, I was wondering if anyone knows how to get access to the remote feed of this tribunal. It sounds like (from other observers on X) that it’s been quite a squirmfest from the MCC witnesses

Sorry, I meant to add a thank you to @JaneDoeKeepsReceipts for copy/pasting too.

There is a lot in there - it hard to read in a block but maybe we can get some momentum to cut and paste across and the distill the issues.

I wonder if there is remote viewing.

Thanks for this, makes it so much easier to understand the TT reporting. What a shitshow!

As Jo Phoenix said in her blog post

Despite everything that has happened to her – and her story is like a montage of all the worse bits of all our cases combined into one - she remains a remarkable woman. Strong. Determined. Very centred. It is clear to me that she sees through the bullshit. She is no witch. None of us are. That’s the whole point.

https://jophoenix.substack.com/p/ashamed