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The Recusal application is to recuse panel member Michael McKeown on grounds of apparent bias. Edited highlights: "The Claimant says the fair-minded and informed observer would conclude that there was a real possibility that Mr McKeown...
... would be unable to approach his task impartially by reason of his work as trade union activist in the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (“NIPSA”) taken together with NIPSA’s active and uncritical...
... support for and campaigning position on gender identity ideology over a number of years, including the latter years of Mr McKeown’s period of office."
"From 2009 to 2017, Mr McKeown was employed by the Whitley Council, the central negotiating body for the Civil Service, and seconded to the union as assistant trade union-side secretary to the Council...
... This was a senior and key role with the union, which fully justifies the description of Mr McKeown as a “leading trade unionist” in an Irish News review of his 2014 novel, Belfast Blues."
"NIPSA has since at least 2015 been actively and uncritically supportive of gender identity ideology and thus necessarily hostile to the sex-realist/gender-critical viewpoint...
... and this was true both in the latter years of Mr McKeown’s membership of its General Council and thereafter. Evidence of this stance includes: