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!

I AM AGOG.

If it has to start again is everything wiped from the record?

So, could witnesses, thinking of MC and MD, give different answers next time and NC not be able to pull them up on it?

Yes

If we have to start it all again, will that not cause serious financial problems for the R's, who are still reeling from the cost of the Bigly Screen?

I'm not on LinkedIn in, so can't see that. Definitely not the previous one linked - she's about half the age of the panel members.

From NW

Apols that closing par three tweets up was obvs made by NC not SD

and - apologies for doing this belatedly: EVERYTHING I HAVE WRITTEN TODAY IN BOTH TWEET THREADS IS A SUMMARY OR CHARACTERISATION OF WHAT WAS BEING SAID. NOTHING IS A DIRECT QUOTE UNLESS IT IS IN "DIRECT QUOTES"

I think I got most of what NC said as she was speaking particularly slowly, but you must not trust any of it as verbatim unless it is in direct quotes.

They'd have to sell it, which seems the best idea, as the screen sounds like a right pain in the arse to hire out, get licenced, and set it up.

Well that certainly puts paid to the idea that PB is totally and unfairly maligned by this recusal application.

No, they would be previous inconsistent statements (anything that contradicts testimoney)

Set it up outside the tribunal for overflow observers?

Yes, that's her, rebax. I hope Naomi knows what she's doing - this sounds awfully thin so far. Wouldn't surprise me if she has no real right to the "Professor" title, though, e.g., was briefly a visiting professor twenty years ago and has been using it ever since. (Someone said people carry on using the title after retirement whether or not officially Emeritus/a - they may, but that's very much not on.)

Ha. I did a google when this whole thing exploded this morning and that’s the Prof DB I found.

So if a person lied on the stand then they'd have to remember those lies for what could be months?

😂 This could all be an elaborate job creation scheme.

I'm sure wossherface the fibber said something about being pressured to use it by sponsors, so I presume any sponsors would take a dim view of the BFF flogging it?

I would archive NW's tweet threads to refresh my memory.

Oh, yes, but you could try to concoct an innocent explanation in the meantime (Brainstorm, drink, a big boy made me do it)

Definitely agree..NC could say that's not what you said before.

It is not.in Sara/Naomi's interest to start this again because of the cost to her. It is rare for legal costs to be reclaimed in employment tribunals. Also as a PP said above, it was going really well in her favour.

We must also consider Mac's reputation with the court and clients.

She wouldn't make this application if she wasn't sure because a frivolous application affects how she's treated in court in the future. Also would we want her as a barrister if she's fucked this up?

And Naomi has 20+ years experience. She's not naive. She knows she has to be on solid ground.

I can't see NC going for this unless she's sure.

Obviously, you can't prove a negative, but if she has some insider knowledge that stuff has been wiped from SM, PB is not likely to contest it?

So interesting!

They're on threadreader. And here

😁

Edited to make bigly.

So the panel member is not a 60+ year old woman?
Then she's not the waste management DB, who, as I said before, far from not having an internet presence, has lots of it eg
Re3's Chief Executive Officer, Professor Deborah Boyd, is the 2009 NIEA Sustainable Ireland Environmental Leader of the Year.

If that's the case, poor woman, sharing the same name and title!

Certainly not if you were a visiting prof, no.

Isn't waste management usually a euphemism? (Sopranos)

The panel is a 60 year oldish woman

Hadn't thought it through - they could charge, recoup some of the investment