Allison Bailey v Stonewall - Employment Tribunal hearing Thread 13

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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

Thread 12 www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4555687-allison-bailey-v-stonewall-employment-tribunal-hearing-thread-12

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 - Bar Council Ethics Committee's VC (24 May)
Tom Wainwright - Barrister at GCC (24 May)
Colin Cook - clerk at GCC (24 May
David Renton - barrister at GCC (20 May, to concluded on 25th May)
David de Menezes - GCC, Head of Marketing

To come:

Michelle Brewer - barrister at GCC at time, now left and a judge.
Kathryn Cronin - barrister at GCC
Stephanie Harrison - joint head of chambers

Can't recall what was going through his mind

Not a lot?

He needs a perfectly simple question re-phrased. Come the fuck on.

Very simple question.
DdM MUST be playing for time here. He cannot hold down a decently-sized job and be this stupid.

I can’t get in. Just keep getting a red error message, something to do with parser not connecting. Have cleared cookies, tried a few times. Think I’ll just have to keep up via these threads, thanks all for the updates so far.

HE'S A GENDER CRITICAL FEMINIST!?!?

He's a T!!F???

I cannot see how EJG could possibly find this witness credible.

"I agree with some gender critical views, but I didn't like how AB expressed them"
ARGHHH

I think he's just realised he's in the shit with his career going forward so is trying to rescue it

I'm hoping this afternoon's witness was a good friend of Allison's who was very busy when all this kicked off and had to do a lot of travelling.

And who suffers from memory loss & struggles to deal with emails on Friday afternoons / during the night / shortly before Christmas.

Don't mis-side him, you bigot.

DDM rejects BC assertion that he thought AB WAS transphobic. Says he has sympathy with some views on the other side of the debate. Hmm.....

He’s going with ‘too much heat’. He’s Lisa Nandy.

@furries it took me about 5 goes just now.

I hope BC will show the things DdM wrote at the time do not tally with his current statements

"There desperately needs to be a national conversation that dials down the heat on this issue"

😡You don't say

Jaw drop.

WOW. I was not expecting that!

I think it's relating to the fact that JR is with AH so the 'they' is plural

toxic blah blah blah, both sides blah blah blah,

Hit me again, I can still hear him.

He cannot hold down a decently-sized job and be this stupid.

As we have seen from GCC and SW witnesses throughout this tribunal, stupidity is NO BARRIER to holding down decently-sized and very well-remunerated jobs

Change of tack over the lunch break. Now agrees with GC views.

Keep trying, the Tribunal had to open another room this morning as there was so many trying to connect.

And what I created the heat and toxic environment. It wasn’t women going about on their business. It was the No Debate crowd.