Allison Bailey v Stonewall - Employment Tribunal hearing Thread 9

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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

[email protected]

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.

When joining the live tribunal please choose a non inflammatory/offensive name, everyone can see it in the chat - This is a court room, please behave accordingly.

The court chat function is there for official court purposes, not for observers, please don't use it unless you have a technical issue.

On the first page underneath where you put your screen name, select the video and mic that are not crossed out (top option), this is the courts vid and mic.
On the next page select NONE on the drop down windows for vid and mic, these are your own video and mic.

You must be muted so as to not disturb the hearing.

There is also live tweeting from

twitter.com/tribunaltweets

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

Allison Bailey - claimant

Witnesses for the claimant:

Nic Williams - Fair Play for Women
A Woman's Place
FiLiA
Kate Harris - LGB Alliance

Witnesses for the respondents:

Stephen Lue - barrister for GCC
Kirrin Medcalfe - head of trans inclusion Stonewall
Sanjay Sood Smith - Stonewall
Shaan Knan - LGBT consortium - on STAG
Leslie Thomas - barrister at GCC
Rajiv Menon - joint head of chambers
Maya Sikand - barrister at GCC and in charge of writing report on AB/complaints
Mia Hakl-Law - HR senior for GCC
Judy Khan - barrister at GCC

Current Witness - Charlie Tennant - Clerk at GCC

To come

Luke Harvey - Clerk at GCC
Louise Hooper - Clerk at GCC
Stephanie Harrison - joint head of chambers
Michelle Brewer - barrister at GCC at time, now left and a judge

Her witness stmt refers to ABs ‘alleged’ protected acts

Having not watched a tribunal before, is this typical?

They won't start him with about half an hour today, will they?

It looked like a man had moved into the chair that LooHoo vacated so a GCC man perhaps.

Once it meets in the middle it will form a large X and look like it's crossing out the rainbow.

Anyone else ever feel like that flag is a hint from the author, like Tom Riddle's name being an anagram?

twitter.com/elijahschaffer/status/1403950225111326724

yes we saw him for a minute sitting at the GCC witness desk with the tech team doing some set up.

I wonder what on earth could be going on?

I can't imagine they'll restart today now. They got very angsty at 16.30 yesterday.

The year is 2025 and the Pride flag is now the Trans flag with a dinky little rainbow almost invisible in the bottom left hand corner.

Regarding the rainbow flag with the invasive triangles, this is always a classic commentary:

twitter.com/LouiseWluddite/status/1400866710983426049

Isn't this Allison's room mate who listened in on her phone calls and reported them to senior staff?

David Renton

www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk/barristers/david-renton/sao

The Istanbul Convention is yet another way of sneaking "gender identity" into law:

Article 4 – Fundamental rights, equality and non-discrimination

"3 The implementation of the provisions of this Convention by the Parties, in particular measures to protect the rights of victims, shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, gender, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, state of health, disability, marital status, migrant or refugee status, or other status."

I, for one, am glad that the UK govt, although a signatory, has never ratified this via Parliament and has introduced its own VAWG laws instead.

rm.coe.int/168008482e

Oh I've got to get the groceries
Ooh, I'll buy some ES snacks for...next week, yes, for next week

I wonder if they've decided to take his evidence in private and just not told us.

I think they’ll restart if they can. Time is so limited.

We're back!

In.

And we're back in the room.

And we're back.

and we're back in the room

Back in!

We're back with DR.

Ah! Orange squash has been drunk and everyone is back.

I wonder if they've decided to take his evidence in private and just not told us.

I almost hope it's this. If not, the EJ must be tearing her hair out. She doesn't deserve this shit!

Don’t know what’s happened but EJ sounds pissed.
miss Russell. Sigh