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!

In October 2010 she officially changed her name on Companies House from Deborah Professor Boyd to Professor Deborah Boyd ??

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Beanbag Cinema

Sounds unhygienic.

All the same, there might be some rarified circles, but Belfast is not really a six degrees of separation city, more like three degrees. Especially because it's very compact, and if you're in the city centre anywhere worth going to is within a half hour's walk. It's very similar to Cardiff in that sense.

If I need to contact someone in Belfast and I don't know them personally, there's a very good chance I know someone who knows them.

As Secretary and Director changed her name from Deborah Professor Boyd to Professor Deborah Professor Boyd??!

Yeah definitely nothing to see here... 😳🤔

As a more general aside, is it ok that you can put whatever you like as your name in an entry on Companies House, with no proof?

Doesn't it need to cross reference with HMRC docs?

Otherwise couldn't you be a tradey called Dave Smith or Mick Jones as many times as you like?

Well it's certainly an easy way to become a professor... Twice! 🤣

It might have been a correction.

I will henceforth be known as Empress Betty Empress Booper! Companies House declares it so! 😂😂😂

Indeed it might, but it's odd to correct something on two separate documents to another wrong thing.

But should it be optional to make the correction or is there no checking that what you enter is accurate or spelled correctly or whatever.

How else can potential customers checked a particular builder hasn't done that thing of setting up and trashing multiple companies etc?

Stats in general are another casualty in this madness. Which is bad news for everyone.

So her name change in 2010 went from professor as a middle name to having two professors in it?

Yes if correcting an error you generally check the correction is more correct than the original mistake (although my mn typo and edit history is evidence it isn't always successful)

To your second point, lay ET panel member is an entirely different position from that of the claimant's job & having a strong personal interest in the issues of the case is sufficient for recusal. We had this a while back in Higgs v Farmors School when Edward Lord, a campaigner for Gender Identitarianism & self-described "non-binary" failed to disclose his activities & interests when he volunteered to sit on the ET panel, the claimant was GC. Lord had to be recused by the judge.
It's one reason why DB's peculiarly light digital footprint is so intriguing, Lord's own social media was a significant factor in his recusal.

Officially changing your name on the same date that you receive a notice warning you about a compulsory strike off of the company you're a director of is....weird. At best it doesn't look great.

iI’m getting real stolen valour type vibes here. Who is she, what business, industry and academic qualifications does she hold to get the vitally important role of ET panellist, how much does it pay, who appointed her and what background checks were done.

And also, are panelists randomly allocated to ETs.

Is it REALLY possible that someone has been serving on a panel for 20 years without anyone ever actually checking their legal name, title and background/suitability to do so? Without checking their Companies House entries are above board and don't raise any eyebrows at all?

In a geographical area that everyone says makes it hard to fly under the radar?

And if it does turn out that this person has no more reason to be in this position than me, you and Auntie, what does that mean for those who have been party to binding legal decisions at their hands?

I know nothing about anything but presumably she must have at least gone through processes like CPD, training and updating etc even if how she got there is lost to the mists of time?

I've no idea why I feel the need to establish that DB is what she says she is, with the possible exception of the professorship, but I do!

I accept that I may be wrong, she may turn out to be a staunch and vocal defender of TWAW, but I don't accept a wince and a word as evidence of that.

Is this acceptable proof that she has a long- established record in business and government boards in NI, Akela64?

In 2002, she was appointed to

' Invest Northern Ireland, which officially comes into operation on Wednesday, has replaced the Industrial Development Board (IDB) and the small business organisation LEDU.
The new members announced on Wednesday are:
-Deborah Boyd: Director of Waste Management and Environment Consultancy'
etc

This is the link to the BBCNI report:
BBC News | NORTHERN IRELAND | Board's female balance praised

And in September 09 she's down as Forenames -Deborah, Surname - Boyd and then after October 10 her forenames on relevant docs are 'Professor Deborah'?

Who puts their title as a forename?

It's just a bit odd.

It's only recently that Companies House ask for corroboration of the name you use. Back in the day, there were no checks.

The Companies House website is a curse for dodgy businesses and dodgy business people. And great for everyone else 😁

Oof. Invest NI were up to their necks in the Ash for Cash scandal that brought down the NI govt.

I don't doubt that she has had companies a long time (and you're right to defend her! I don't wish the woman any ill will whether she thinks TWAW or not - though I think she should have declared any conflict of interest if they exist).

But I do think there's something, well just odd! about this whole thing.