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Sandie Peggie: Employment Tribunal, associated legal claims, and related matters - thread #63

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nauticant · 24/09/2026 13:07

TLDR version: Sandie Peggie vs Royal College of Nursing is currently being heard. The hearing started on Wednesday 23 September 2026 and is scheduled to end on Thursday 1 October 2026.

Sandie Peggie, a nurse at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy (VH), brought claims in the employment tribunal against her employer; Fife Health Board (the Board) and another employee, Dr B Upton. Ms Peggie’s claims were of sexual harassment, harassment related to a protected belief, indirect discrimination and victimisation. Dr Upton claimed to be a transwoman, that is observed as male at birth but asserting a female gender identity.

The Employment Tribunal hearing started on Monday 3 February 2025 and after a prolonged process judgment was handed down on 8 December 2025. That judgment is being appealed and an appeal hearing is expected to take place in 2027.

Additional legal claims have been raised. Sandie Peggie is taking action against the Royal College of Nursing, against three senior managers who were witnesses in the employment tribunal - Dr Kate Searle, Dr Maggie Currer and Esther Davidson, against Carol Potter, the chief executive of NHS Fife, for victimisation, against NHS Fife for discrimination, and against its director of people and culture David Miller for harassment. In addition, Sandie Peggie is being investigated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council over fitness to practice.

The past proceedings were live tweeted by www.x.com/tribunaltweets. Tribunal Tweets are likely to be providing coverage in current and future proceedings. There's additional information on Tribunal Tweets' substack: tribunaltweets.substack.com/.

Links to previous threads #1 to #60 can be found in this thread: www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5379717-sandie-peggie-list-of-threads-covering-employment-tribunal-and-afterwards

Thread 60: www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5461133-sandie-peggie-vs-nhs-fife-health-board-and-dr-beth-upton-following-employment-tribunal-judgment-thread-60 16 December 2025 to 8 January 2026

Thread 61: www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5472628-sandie-peggie-vs-nhs-fife-health-board-and-dr-beth-upton-following-employment-tribunal-judgment-thread-61 8 January 2026 to 3 August 2026

Thread 62: www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5562302-sandie-peggie-vs-nhs-fife-health-board-and-dr-beth-upton-following-employment-tribunal-judgment-thread-62 3 August 2026 to 24 September 2026

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Justabaker · 25/09/2026 16:04

@janeszebra

I like use of 'eternal' but suspect you meant external.

janeszebra · 25/09/2026 16:05

Yes, finish him off NC!

SomewhatGlad · 25/09/2026 16:05

TT

NC quotes this note - SP's level of discomfort. That could not be clearer of sex realist belief 'you are not a woman because you say you are'
NP SP had not expressed that belief but I go back to make the point about the hurdles,

it's my belief that it would be further along in the process where more of the facts are known that SF would make a decision about legal support.
NC - SP said in evidence that she didn't know what GC was. She wasn't the expert was she? Not her to know her beliefs were protected in law?

NP - no but it would have been too early to bring legal referral
NP this was an enquiry, a brief call. SP made it clear she was going to be suspended. SF place to advise on that, and to meet and to formulate response. An initial call doesn't cover all that you describe

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 25/09/2026 16:05

janeszebra · 25/09/2026 16:04

Perhaps RCN's lack of help and response to Sandie's initial call was the prompt for her to seek eternal help. These fucking idiots.

Which they are now using to justify not helping her. Circular or what!

Boiledbeetle · 25/09/2026 16:05

I think he's well and truly fucked himself there! Truly showed the union's true colours!

janeszebra · 25/09/2026 16:06

Justabaker · 25/09/2026 16:04

@janeszebra

I like use of 'eternal' but suspect you meant external.

That'll teach me to rage type!

PersonIrresponsible · 25/09/2026 16:06

"There's a man in the women's changing room and I don't think that's okay."

<<Gets suspended for having a belief>>

Union: She didn't say it was a firmly held belief therefore nothing for us to concern ourselves with.

Have I got this right?

ickky · 25/09/2026 16:06

This is the reason for all the fuckoffs.

NC quotes this note - SP's level of discomfort. That could not be clearer of sex realist belief 'you are not a woman because you say you are'
NP SP had not expressed that belief but I go back to make the point about the hurdles

StSpiridian · 25/09/2026 16:07

Nick Wallis's version
NC [takes NP back to SF's note of SF's first convo with SP in which SP tells SF she did not want Dr Upton in her changing room because he was a man and reads it out] - that's a clear demo of her GC beliefs NP we did not know it was a firmly held belief

CriticalCondition · 25/09/2026 16:07

PersonIrresponsible · 25/09/2026 16:06

"There's a man in the women's changing room and I don't think that's okay."

<<Gets suspended for having a belief>>

Union: She didn't say it was a firmly held belief therefore nothing for us to concern ourselves with.

Have I got this right?

Yes. Yes, you have.

Boiledbeetle · 25/09/2026 16:07

PersonIrresponsible · 25/09/2026 16:06

"There's a man in the women's changing room and I don't think that's okay."

<<Gets suspended for having a belief>>

Union: She didn't say it was a firmly held belief therefore nothing for us to concern ourselves with.

Have I got this right?

Yep

YouCanCallMeMonster · 25/09/2026 16:07

SomewhatGlad · 25/09/2026 16:05

TT

NC quotes this note - SP's level of discomfort. That could not be clearer of sex realist belief 'you are not a woman because you say you are'
NP SP had not expressed that belief but I go back to make the point about the hurdles,

it's my belief that it would be further along in the process where more of the facts are known that SF would make a decision about legal support.
NC - SP said in evidence that she didn't know what GC was. She wasn't the expert was she? Not her to know her beliefs were protected in law?

NP - no but it would have been too early to bring legal referral
NP this was an enquiry, a brief call. SP made it clear she was going to be suspended. SF place to advise on that, and to meet and to formulate response. An initial call doesn't cover all that you describe

it's my belief that it would be further along in the process where more of the facts are known that SF would make a decision about legal support

but not too fucking early to give Sandie reassurance that there was a legal way forward open to her if other routes were unsuccessful!!!!!!!!!

SomewhatGlad · 25/09/2026 16:07

TT

NP - I would not expect that for the reasons I gave earlier.
NC - how long would you expect that call to be NP about 30 minutes.
NC it was put to Ms Peggie and she thought it was more like 10 minutes. Those notes don't account for a 30 minute call

J - coming to end?
NC - short further section.
NC - turn to page 425.

NC - that's MG letter 21 May have you re read recently?
NP - yes
NC - she expresses disappointment that RCN hasn't resolved single sex provision. Turn to p969

SomewhatGlad · 25/09/2026 16:08

TT

NC - that is an short letter from SD to the Darlington NHS Trust? What was the reason a similar letter couldn't be written on behalf of SP and all her female colleagues
NP - managed by SWAG, we raised with SWAG.

Justabaker · 25/09/2026 16:09

PersonIrresponsible · 25/09/2026 16:06

"There's a man in the women's changing room and I don't think that's okay."

<<Gets suspended for having a belief>>

Union: She didn't say it was a firmly held belief therefore nothing for us to concern ourselves with.

Have I got this right?

That was what triggered all fucking off.

chilling19 · 25/09/2026 16:09

Blah blah blah blah - yawn.

CriticalCondition · 25/09/2026 16:09

And you can fuck off with your wanky acronyms too.

SomewhatGlad · 25/09/2026 16:10

TT

NP - gives examples of how hospital structures differ between England and Scotland. How it's done via SWAG.

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 25/09/2026 16:10

BettyBooper · 25/09/2026 12:08

NW's tweet said this

'DH let's go back to p118 - it says RCN "may" decide not to represent you. Why did you reach the decision not withstanding the "may"
NP I did it because it is what I do in every single case where people have taken legal advice by their own choice. I only apply "may" if people didn't know about our rule. But not if they ought to have known or did know.'

So yeah clear as cocoa.

'Ought to have known' is a slippery old fish. One can argue that everyone 'ought' to know. SP ought to have known, because she ought to have been told. Doesn't mean she was.

Boiledbeetle · 25/09/2026 16:11

Justabaker · 25/09/2026 16:09

That was what triggered all fucking off.

I'm so angry

chilling19 · 25/09/2026 16:12

Nooo, my iPad just ran out of power and I am now out 😢

Boiledbeetle · 25/09/2026 16:12

chilling19 · 25/09/2026 16:12

Nooo, my iPad just ran out of power and I am now out 😢

Probably best for your blood pressure

SomewhatGlad · 25/09/2026 16:13

TT

NP - We raised it this way as this is normal process.
NC - page 427 your response to MG of 27 May, essentially saying what you've just said. The gist of that is that the scottish gov kicking this into the long grass and unions happy for this to happen.

(Glad: SWAG isn't in the list of acronyms in the header in TT's thread)

Hedgehogforshort · 25/09/2026 16:13

Bang to rights then, it was clear from SF first contact note and SP recollection that SF considered her a perp

and said will help you through the hearing that it as a holibobs.

Liars, exposed as liars.

ickky · 25/09/2026 16:14

Sitting on hands

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