Forstater judgment tomorrow

[achillestoes]

In case we hadn’t had enough drama.

Good luck, Maya.

It looks like the discrimination on grounds of belief and indirect sex discrimination were dismissed, just looking at the summary on the first page. Is this a problem? (IANAL)

Link to the judgement;
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Forstater-JR-AG.pdf

What did she NOT win on??

Absolutely delighted. What a legend.

Get in!! Delighted for you Maya, what a woman!

Yesss!!! 🥂

(At work, supposedly on a Teams call, hoping some kind MNers could summarise the judgement for those of us unable to read it in full ourselves right now)

Fuck me. She did it.

Worthy of respect and a total badass.

@MForstater 😘

Thank god for that!

Don't mind me, just loitering about until the FWR lawyers can parse this into something I understand!

Oh my god

The unanimous judgment of the Tribunal is as follows:

1. The complaints of direct discrimination because of belief are well founded against all Respondents in respect of:

1.1 The decision not to offer the Claimant an employment contract. 1.2 The decision not to renew the Claimant’s visiting fellowship.

1. The other complaints of direct discrimination because of belief are

dismissed.

1. The complaint of victimisation is well founded against the First and Second Respondents in respect of the removal of the Claimant’s profile from their website.

1. The complaint of victimisation in respect of withdrawal of an offer to engage the Claimant as a consultant is dismissed.

1. The complaints of harassment and indirect discrimination (sex and belief) are dismissed.

1. Remedies for the successful complaints and any issues as to apportionment between the Respondents will be determined at a future hearing.

This is good news. And that's a lot of words in that judgement. Can someone with a bigger brain and vocab please break it down for me? Thank you!

Sex discrimination, harassment and victimisation

she got the important direct and indirect discrimination on belief.

Yes. Well done Maya et al!

So they discriminated against her in terms of not offering her a further contract because of her beliefs, and they victimised her by removing her profile from the website when they didn't do the same to others, but they didn't create a hostile environment for her or discriminate against her because of being a woman and therefore being more likely to be GC? Is that about the size of it?

Well done, Maya. In awe of you for taking it all this way when it would have been so easy just to back down.

Direct Discrimination on the grounds of belief Yes.

Well done Maya.

Congratulations Maya! She already struck a massive blow for all of our freedom with the EAT decision, but I'd have been gutted for her if she didn't win this.

It's awful to contemplate where we'd be without her!

Thank you Viper.

THANK YOU MAYA

She won on the main counts.

Bloody hell.

YES!!
Well done, Maya. Thank you, thank you so much.

Looks like there will be another hearing to determine what level of damages she will get. That will be interesting. I hope we get to see that too.

Amazing news!!!