Allison Bailey v Stonewall - Employment Tribunal hearing Thread 18

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The Tribunal started on 25th April, witness testimony concluded on the 26th May. Closing arguments for council was on the 20th June.

There was 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 )
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 = Judge Goodman, Mr M. Reuby and Ms Darmas

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

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Thread 17 www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4561850-allison-bailey-v-stonewall-employment-tribunal-hearing-thread-17

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)
David Renton - barrister at GCC (20 May, 25 May)
Marc Willers - Barrister at GCC (23 May)
Stephen Clark - Barrister at GCC (23 May)
Liz Davies - Barrister at GCC (23 May)
Cathryn McGahey - Bar Council Ethics Committee's VC (24 May)
Tom Wainwright - Barrister at GCC (24 May)
Colin Cook - Head clerk at GCC (24 May)
David de Menezes - GCC, Head of Marketing (25 May)
Kathryn Cronin - barrister at GCC (25 May)
Michelle Brewer - barrister at GCC at time, now left and a judge (26 May)
Stephanie Harrison - joint head of chambers (26 May)
Closing arguments for AB, GCC, and SW (20 June)

Allison Bailey's

Witness Statement

allisonbailey.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Witness-Statement-of-Allison-Bailey.pdf

Supplementary Statement

allisonbailey.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/C-Supplementary-Witness-Statement.pdf

Closing Statement

allisonbailey.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CLOSING-SUBMISSIONS-FINAL.pdf

Yes GCC should now sue Stonewall.

How triumphalist do we think the Stonewall response will be?

The sun is over the yardarm somewhere in the world!

Crack that bottle open. 🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾

@Apollo442 great minds think alike xpost :-D

GCC suing SW would be popcornworthy!

I have popped something bubbly. I am really quite emotional and have two small DCs asking why and patting my shoulder.

Buggery thing is that DH is out on his bike and forgot his phone so I can't tell him yet! We have been glued to the tribunal.

I'm expecting SW to talk about "a case you might have heard of...". Or identify as the winner.

A skim of the judgment is worth it.

www.judiciary.uk/judgments/bailey-v-stonewall-garden-court-chambers-and-others/

Can anyone see response from Stonewall to this verdict ?

Can't wait to see how Dolores Umbridge Nancy Kelley is going to spin this!

Thank you Allison. Thank you so very much.

I wish we could all go round her house and high five/hug/shake hands manfully.

Also crying.

And their bollocks revisionist interpretation on the cotton ceiling got short shrift.

I'm so, so pleased for Allison.

And aggravated damages from GCC too. That'll really sting. And make itself felt in the legal and insurance world. The 'non renewal' for 'financial reasons' of Stonewall memberships just got a rocket under it.

Not just damages, aggravated damages.

Bloody well done Allison. so pleased and relieved to read this.

Coming on top of Maya's judgement too, feels like this thing really is turning around.

Very grateful to the brave women who put themselves through unimaginable stress to get us here. Thank You 🙏

Great news. Here's hoping this makes multiple organisations rethink their relationship with SW.

Absolutely true.

I think this will finish Stonewall. They get their money from educating organisations about the law (as they would like it to be). No organisation is going to listen to them after their educational program resulted in paying out aggravated damages for discriminating against an employee for their protected beliefs.

I can just imagine the crowds signing in . . .

I love that Allison is She Who Must Not Be Named in previous comment Stonewall has made on this case. Wonder what they'll say. Shall be do bingo:
Attack on rights
We'll never stop fighting for TRA
Any more ...

They'll reframe their trauma.

Very grateful to the brave women who put themselves through unimaginable stress to get us here. Thank You

seconded

Bears repeating

/also crying

So pleased for Allison she must be so relieved. I think this is the outcome most who followed the tribunal were hoping for/banking on.

A direct link from SW to GCC was always going to have to meet a high bar and I think most of us on these threads recognised it probably didn't. However it's not good news for Stonewall by any means because if I was a business I would not wish to be sued based on their erroneous advice.

Could you imagine though, yeah we are a barristers Chambers but we were so desperate for stonewall cookies that we took their flawed advice over our own knowledge of the law.