Sara Morrison vs Belfast Film Festival - Thread 2

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Continuation of previous thread - don’t have all the details to hand to add here, so if someone can pop them on, pls do! Want to get this up quickly!

Not entirely because PB has gone.

It's an interesting time to drop out due to a fibro flair up.

From NW

restart on Tuesday, possibly Tuesday afternoon. What do you want to do?
NC can we rise for 5 minutes to take instruction?
J FIVE minutes. I hope there is no objection if PB goes home.
[Panel rises. PB makes eye contact with room. Says "thank you" and walks (some might say...

... stalks) out]

Well, it's a foreseeable outcome, so NC should have expected it.

I suppose if you've got a fuming judge there's an argument to be made for having a confrontation, instead of letting her fume through the whole hearing.

Maybe that's why she was twitching at mention of TW being men?😏

Well, they have got rid of PB but that might scupper any attempt to take it on to quasi appeal. Thy have a now furious and insulted judge and other panellist to contend with.

The judge seemed a quite hostile to NC anyway, maybe the Judge will now try to be scrupulously fair.

I hope so ickky

Hopefully.

I must say I find it odd that it took them almost an hour to come up with that excuse discuss such a reasonable reason.

Quite!

You're right. That should have taken them five minutes to decide.

She wasn't doing anything hostile beforehand, as far as I could see. She didn't want a discussion of trans issues, and forcus on employment law was all going great with the Event that wasnt, and now we're right in the middle of those issues

And was calling herself professor in 2006.

I can find no digital footprint for DB or Re3 that have any credibility. No links to a HE or links post 2004 to a company other than those registered and dissolved by DB and her family.

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I have Fibro and one thing I couldn't do during a pain flare would be to rush in a Usain Bolt-esque manner to be out of the door first (IIRC NC said that she rushed to be out first) - in fact I would still be trying to stand from my chair while everyone else was out of the hearing room!

My legal knowledge is zero so uhmm IDK what to think now.

Sorry, what is the judge's name? I joined this thread late.

Fibro can flair up at any time, but especially if you've been sitting in the same position for a long time.
Either the judge is lying through her teeth, or that is indeed why DB made a face/winced and asked for a break.

Assuming the judge is not prepared to perjure herself to defend DB, that cancels out the 'biased because of facial expression and leaving the room' accusation against DB.

There is also a possibility that DB - who is in her 60s as well as having FM - realises that she just isnt' up to sitting through these long tribunals any more, and when she was the subject of all this drama about bias/recusal etc this morning, just thought feck this, I've had enough, lit and fig.

My attention is more on the judge, and the implications if she knows more about DB's motives for quitting than she's admitting - which would be really serious.

As a complete civilian in these matters, the whole thing seems to have been rather a shambles.

From NW

We're back.
NC SD and I are happy to continue with a two panel
J great so we can continue on Monday
NC we will send a revised timetable before we start Mon morning
SD can I say Monday 1.30pm
J Miss Devlin I'm sorry I said I would take you off oath, but I have checked. I am not...

Plausible deniability

Fibro is not so obliging as to only flare when someone says something controversial. If only.

I was sitting in a seminar with back pain once. I shifted my position, winced and squirmed intermittently throughout, not solely when the speaker said something I didn't approve of.

And calling herself Professor in evidence to the House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee in 2004