Apologies if this has already been posted here; I couldn't find a mention of it. Everything below is a quote from the Scottish newspaper The Courier:
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5391599/sandie-peggie-nhs-fife-bogus-quote-judgment/
The judgment in the Sandie Peggie NHS Fife trans row employment tribunal has been amended to remove a bogus quote.
The original 300-page document referenced a line supposedly from a major gender campaigner’s separate tribunal from 2021.
It related to the case brought by gender campaigner Maya Forstater – a supporter of Ms Peggie – against the Centre for Global Development Europe.
But this week Ms Forstater told us: “I know that judgment inside out, and I thought [after reading the NHS Fife judgment], those words are not there.”
On Thursday afternoon, Judge Sandy Kemp admitted the blunder less than two hours after The Courier brought the controversy to light.
The Judicial Office branded it a “clerical mistake, error or omission”, with the spurious section now replaced by a new paragraph from the Forstater judgment.
In response to several follow-up questions we asked about the issue, it said it cannot comment on individual cases.
Sex Matters chief ‘astonished’
Ms Forstater – the chief executive of Sex Matters, the gender-critical charity backing Ms Peggie – has demanded answers.
She said: “I knew this was wrong and it’s good it’s being amended,
“But I am astonished that it happened and I would like an explanation of how it happened.
“Errors like this just add to the growing feeling that this is not a sound judgment.”
Page 183 of the NHS Fife trans row tribunal ruling discusses the 2010 Equality Act – which Ms Peggie unsuccessfully claimed her employer had breached.
In their analysis of the Glenrothes nurse’s argument, Judge Kemp and the panel wrote: “Secondly, there are different protected characteristics under the act but there is nothing stated specifically within the act itself, or the court’s decision, that one protected characteristic takes precedence over any other.
“In Forstater v CDG Europe and others UKEAT/0105/20 the Employment Appeal Tribunal had emphasised that: ‘It is important to bear in mind that the [Equality Act 2010] does not create a hierarchy of protected characteristics’.”
But it has now emerged the quote did not exist.