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!

Yes, you would ask for a comfort break.

Will the bundle include credentials of panel? Perhaps NW will get a look if so.

Well, the local arts scene is not just captured but extremely insular and cliquey. Think of the Scottish arts scene but much smaller. It's the kind of world where cancellation doesn't mean you lose some gigs, it means all your friends suddenly stop speaking to you.

And it's all dependent on money from Stormont or City Hall or peace funds set up by Chuck Feeney and his ilk.

And as often happens in provincial cities, Pride has become a huge money spinner. Nobody elected the lads who run Pride, but you would have to be extremely brave to get on the wrong side of them.

Earlier than that - she was calling herself Professor to House of Commons Northern Ireland Committee in 2004. When she would have been 45. Girl done good??

Assuming it is the same Professor Boyd who is interested in waste management...

Or to put it another way
'a self-made woman who managed to become CEO in a male-dominated industry, won an award for it, served on several governmental boards, and supported other women in business, but who uses the title Professor for suspicious reasons'.

Whatever you think of her, my reply to you at 17.30 included a quote that shows that she really was CEO of a company that really did things, and she really did get an award for her endeavours.

Thank you Marie.

This is what has me cufuddled. This is an online media piece but has no working links to a primary source. When I do a Google search the NIEA Environmental Leader of the Year 2009 isn't found.

You can find other winners for different NIEA awards for 2009 but not that one.

IIJM, but 'waste management' always makes me think of Tony Soprano!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah-boyd-a1687819?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios

Is there a way for a member of the public to demand information about the credentials of a tribunal panel member, such as their entitlement to a title that they use? FOIs are usually pretty limited in the personal information you can ask for under them, but it seems like a reasonable thing to want to know...

Deborah identifies as a Professor surely?

If your professorship is honorary, you’re supposed to make that abundantly clear.

Isn’t ‘waste management’ how Tony Soprano made his money??

To be fair to him it’s so rare it’s likely what most barristers would do.

But he could tone down the bluster. It’s a bit Ian Paisley OG at times.

Judge rejects claims of alleged bias at employment tribunal - BBC News

The unfortunate thing is when I hear waste management and Northern Ireland all i can think of is those bonfires and the state of Lough Neagh. Not a global leader of good practice.

I'll be interested to see how BBC Newsline cover this in a few minutes (on Iplayer if anyone needs to know)...

So honestly - there was weird behaviour and then the amount of interruptions Naomi had.

A scrubbed profile, an upset tribunal member, connections however remote to the groups in question (remember day 1 - NI is a small place) and there is reasonable cause to doubt the independence of the panel.

They completely failed to address the bias and put it down to ill health.

So did the bias exist?
If her health was so poorly why not recuse voluntarily on health grounds prior to NC raising the application.

I asked Google - Deborah Boyd employment lay panel NI ET member and got this

'There is no public record of a Deborah Boyd serving as a lay panel member for the Northern Ireland employment tribunal, and search results do not link a Deborah Boyd to this role. It is possible the name is incorrect or the individual holds a different position, as the search results feature information about other roles, such as Parole Board members and directors at Napier Solicitors.'

Did I ask the question wrong?? Are lay panel members names not on public record?

Between that and the very costly £2000 erections and 37 page manuals needed for said erections it a wonder why the two remaining employees of BFF don’t need a wee lie down on some beanbags.

Given this shower of muppets signed their statements not two weeks ago and then can’t remember the barest facts in them after wearing they are true during the trail I think Naomi won’t have a thing to worry about.

Local chat in the room confirms fibromyalgia likely genuine. But it was noted that the medical excuse having been given, the other issues went unmentioned.

Crossexamination of my tame academic gave the following results:

• Never heard of visiting professorships using people who have only industry experience without the academic background, but it may happen in specific fields.
• If it's a longstanding gig a mention on the institution's website would be likely, but it's not impossible they wouldn't be mentioned.
• If retired, they would in theory be removed from website (but he knows of people who've left, and some who are long dead, who are still there).
• A visiting professor of the above type doing their visiting job or doing related work (eg at a conference) would be listed as 'Jo Bloggs, visiting professor at xxx'. But actually calling themselves 'Professor Bloggs' - especially in unrelated contexts - would be "dodgy [insert deeply suspicious face here]".

Doing things here

I’m local and I can tell having watched 90% of evidence the judge has a bee in her bonnet about these English barristers coming over here and saying things like blasphemy and heresy and talking about the Trans.

She just wants to say aye you were a wee bit out of line there Sara but here’s £20k for your trouble. Sure if you burn your arse you have to sit on the blisters.

But Naomi and the hoardes of sex realist women looking at her from the back of the room and a big fund from JKR are giving her a while hard time so it is.

My takeaway is either way expect a few rounds of this bout. Someone will appeal.

Sounds about right

The full-time employment judges are listed publicly, but I don't believe lay members are. Someone in the Department for the Economy will have the full list, and obviously tribunal staff will have it too.

Ah thanks.

I thought they'd all have some kind of profile, 'This is Betty, she worked as an astronaut for 25 years, knows loads about everything and has a cat called Peanut', kind of thing.

But clearly not 😂