Allison Bailey v Stonewall - Employment Tribunal hearing Thread 12

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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

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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.

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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

Thread 10 www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4553754-allison-bailey-v-stonewall-employment-tribunal-hearing-thread-10

Thread 11 www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4555145-allison-bailey-v-stonewall-employment-tribunal-hearing-thread-11

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)
Marc Willers - Barrister at GCC (23 May)
Stephen Clark - Barrister at GCC (23 May)
Liz Davies - Barrister at GCC (23 May)
Katherine McGahy (24 May)
Tom Wainwright - Barrister at GCC (24 May)

To come:

Colin Cook - clerk at GCC (24 May)
David de Menezes - GCC, Head of Marketing
David Renton - barrister at GCC (20 May, to continue on 25th May)
Kathryn Cronin - barrister at GCC
Stephanie Harrison - joint head of chambers
Michelle Brewer - barrister at GCC at time, now left and a judge.

CC just said yes, her billings were down, it depends on the quality of the work. BC - Exactly.

1. It's been established beyond any doubt that Allison was out of favour with many people in the chambers.

2. It's been shown (mostly through the repetitively ridiculous denials) that there was a lot of office gossip.

3. It's unarguably true that she had a massive drop in her income at around the same time as all this happening.

At this point is it not more probable than not that (3) is related to (1) and (2)? I imagine Employment Tribunals must see this kind of thing all the time.

So if they had a special database system to justify exactly who was offered/awarded each case and why ... Because of historic bias against women ... Why was this useful dataset not included in the disclosure documents?

Not interested in the issue. Bingo!

There is a problem isn't there that if you bring in a system to evidence you aren't discriminating, and then don't use it, that you then don't have evidence to show you aren't discriminating.

Think BC is wrapping up. EJG will be pleased. They have to finish at 4.20 today.

I know nothing, have no interest in this subject. But he is a very close friend of JM.

Oh and here she is butting in when he had finished.

There's also this:

twitter.com/tribunaltweets/status/1529101665399410689

Sorry friend of Judy Khan.

They’re not going to get DDM on are they.

Ah is so rude, he didn't even say hello to CC.

CC "I know nothing"

Maybe 15 minutes of DdeM?

Agh. Have to sign off to go to doctors. I'm going to try watch MB tomorrow. I'm plotting my work diary so I have admin only and can multi task

Oh god, we're back to the drop down boxes.

AH spits his words out - he always sounds so angry!

Is AH just setting CC up with an opportunity to make an angry rant about how outrageous the allegations are?

AH sounding like a statement not a question ....

I can just imagine what a clerk of 40 years standing thought of having to record all clerking in a series of drop down boxes.
I remember trying to help introduce software bug tracking software to try to identify what sort of problems were getting through quality controls. People did not like it, saw it as unnecessary etc etc.

How is poor witness meant to make head or tail of this ramble?😯

Yep definitely.

Is AH winding up CC to be outraged?

"AB could be a member of my family - she's a Black woman"

Seems an odd thing to say

It certainly sounds like it. AH's tone of voice is combative.