Forstater judgment tomorrow

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In case we hadn’t had enough drama.

Good luck, Maya.

I'm actually stunned.

This is amazing.

What a relief! Well done Maya. You’re a legend!

Fantastic result!!!! 👏

Congratulations to Maya! And thank you to the clever vipers who explained the significance of different parts of the judgment.

Everything crossed now for Allison.

This is what I hoped would happen!

Delighted for her. Amazing work Maya, Anya, Ben and Peter.

Excellent news! Thank you and congratulations Maya!

Well done Maya. I really hope you get comfort from the fact, that it will now be public knowledge, how unfair your supposedly "equal rights" employers were in reality.

Actually crying here 🥰

This is such brilliant brilliant news, well done Maya ❤️❤️❤️❤️

This is such good news.

I hope the judgement doesn't get buried in mainstream media amidst the government meltdown.

My Kindle reckons the judgement is 81 pages long.

I suspect Ben Cooper QC is going to be a very busy man.

Amazing!!! Well done Maya 🍾🥂

Congratulations Maya and all the team.

I am in bits reading that statement.

Women fucking matter, our realities matter, our bodies matter, they are real and immutable and not a feeling in a man's head, and thanks to Maya we can fucking well say that out loud.

Have asked DP who is a lawyer, who says that once direct discrimination is proved it is normally not that necessary to pursue/adjudicate the indirect discrimination claim (which I think the report says was not actually pursued at the tribunal, eg point 3) so the fact that some claims were dismissed does not mean much. Or something like that!

(I’m not a lawyer so disclaimers that this isn’t my field of knowledge, don’t know how true this is etc. etc.!)

Such brilliant news! Thank you Maya for standing up to this. Appalling that you were put in this position in the first place. Celebrate this good news today.

I'm sure Woman's Hour, who've studiously ignored this all along, will be right on the blower any minute now

Brilliant news! Well done Maya and team!

Congratulations to Maya and her team! It is so incredibly important to have this as a legal reference point.

So relieved I can’t express it!

What I love about it is the no-nonsense ‘it’s a straightforward expression of her belief’ statements. This case always hinged on the fact that some people have come to regard the very ordinary as the very extreme, and this judgment rightly corrects that.

Well done, you brave woman.

She won, she won, she won!!!

That is fucking brilliant.

Maya, I’m so pleased for you and thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing this.

Ben Cooper, you’re the Eighth Wonder of the World.

obvs fewer words and no functioning brain, but that is the gist! WHOOP!

Thank you Maya. For your strength to keep going - your clear-headed determination and the enormous sacrifice it must have taken to keep pursuing your case in the face of hostility, threats to your wellbeing and constant lying about your motivations and beliefs (not to mention the financial hit you must have taken) This is a magnificent day and I hope you enjoy it and are immensely proud of yourself.

Yes it's the same strategy that Allison adopted - you have to think of everything so the Respondents have less wriggle room.

I agree about the research needing to be done now, in detail, about sex / GC belief, which is what I was alluding to above. This is either going to be a fruitful avenue to pursue in future cases once the research is nailed down; or it isn't.

Either way, it's research worth doing.

Had a quick skim, not that I'm any sort of legal brain 😂

Saw they dismissed those stupid ramblings about the Fair Play for Women video, they said it was a normal campaign video, and nothing wrong with the colours red and black I remembered that from the case as being a particularly bonkers scrape of the barrel, so glad the tribunal were having none of it!

Very, very happy to have been proven wrong on my predictions! What a day for women, and what a shero Maya!