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!

From NW

... able to take you off oath
SD yes I checked too and understand that to be the case
J so I am afraid that means you cannot talk to anyone about your evidence but other things are fine
[brief discussion to confirm Ms Devlin will be finished on Monday]

I'd be a lot happier if it did then I'd just watch cartoons all day and stay off the internet. Boring, but pain free!

From NW

J okay. Good. well have a good weekend everybody.
[court rises]
More follows...

Don't think so as they seem to have lived in the UK since secondary school.

I grew out of it. Though it may also be one of the many (mostly small but unpleasant) things that resolved when I stopped eating wheat. I haven't forgotten.

And why they didn't just explain this earlier on?

There might be an element of relief at having the issue resolved? It's taken out of her hands now. Obviously everyone can see what's really happened, but Boyd's not the only person this is convenient for!

I know nothing about this as I’ve literally just arrived and am having to catch up.

I do know about fibromyalgia, and charitably… hearing distressing things makes the pain flair up.
So I look like a flake because I can visit my lovely friend Judith who has a nice comfy sofa and enjoys a two way conversation.
I come over ill at the thought of visiting DM who sits in the only comfortable chair in an under heated house, demands I do loads of jobs, and talks loudly at me listing all her complaints and upsets. When I go, I come back in pain and it takes a few days to recover.

So charitably, she could have been ok until the going got tough.

Re3 was a Dublin registered company under the name c Resource Recycling Recovery and dissolved in 2015

Well, that was all a bit of an unexpected rollercoaster of a day.

I wonder if the internet will give up more secrets, to screw the panel completely, over the weekend?

I bet CE is on it over the weekend Boiled.

I would be unsurprised if a certain elf will be digging over the weekend

I imagine so

Can any observers report on how Naomi and Charlotte look to be doing after all that? OK, I hope.

From NW

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Ok, new theory. I think DB bolted bcos offended by pronoun use. I think J knew that was what she was going to say and stopped with a warning not to say anything that might prove prejudicial (I know that’s the wrong word technically speaking but you know what I mean) ans then PB came up with pain claim to justify asking for private disc. I think j knows full well that PB is biased and so used that as a good face- saving means of recusal. I also think J knows that PB should have declared her connections, historic or not, and that it is likely someone will find TRA stuff somewhere.

I think it took them an hour because PB didn’t want to be recused but J knew it was going to have to happen.

I suspect thia will be used by BFF as grounds for appeal if they lose and so the panel will judge IB their favour whilst doing a bit of light admonishing about behaviour around disclosure and lying by witnesses. Ie they’ll say SM wasn’t constructively dismissed or harassed tho they could have handled things better but being a small org it’s tricky — or something along those lines.

Then NC will try and appeal but will probably get stitched up by NI ET systems who will stand with panel.

it’s probably worked in BFFs favour that PB is out.

Well fancy that. Virgin gym WiFi is blocking the gender blog of NW.

HA! Like she hasn’t already demonstrated she’s been talking to folk.

I had to speak at Newman vs Met Police to oppose an anonymity order for a witness. I respectfully agreed with and adopted the barrister's remarks (that would be NC) and said in any event it would be futile. I said that the parties requesting secrecy for someone who was going to appear in court and was an employee of said Met Police was an exercise in futility. The parties might be bound but I said the judge was seriously underestimating the quality and diligence of internet detectives.

From NW

Thanks to everyone who donated and/or followed the tweets. Hopefully you got the gist of what was happening today. Thanks also to both legal teams, the witnesses, the court staff and the observers who have made this a fascinating week.

I'm going to try and catch the Friday fun plane whilst bashing out some copy.

Don't forget to watch Bernie Allen's (@emeldajane2) report on BBC Northern Ireland's Newsline at 6.30pm tonight.

Thread ends!

The recusal outcome session.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1989368465464213928.html

So no one really knows who this Professor Boyd is, what she does, why she's a professor, or how she ended up on the panel?

Good job we've all got the weekend to recover. I'm wondering about hidden agendas here. NC and Sex Matters clearly choose very carefully the cases that they get involved in and approach rich witches to fund.Was this one chosen because of fears that the close connections of professionals in the small NI community make it difficult to move things forward following FWS, and the idea here was to cause some shock waves to force people to abandon the party line? You would get non-local lawyers in to do that, local ones wouldn't be able to stand up against an oppressive TRA culture if there is one. But maybe the establishment isn't that captured, though I think Largesso's theory is consistent with a very insular stance

I bet Twitter does by Monday

So, the judge didn’t even address the issue of her company associations?
Interesting