Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife Health Board and Dr Beth Upton, following Employment Tribunal judgment - thread #61

[nauticant]

Judgment was handed down on 8 December 2025:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6936ce28a6fc97b81e57436a/S_Peggie_v_Fife_Health_Board__Dr_Upton.pdf

Sandie Peggie, a nurse at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy (VH), brought claims in the employment tribunal against her employer; Fife Health Board (the Board) and another employee, Dr B Upton. Ms Peggie’s claims are of sexual harassment, harassment related to a protected belief, indirect discrimination and victimisation. Dr Upton claims to be a transwoman, that is observed as male at birth but asserting a female gender identity.

The Employment Tribunal hearing started on Monday 3 February 2025 and was expected to last 2 weeks. However, after 2 weeks it was not complete and it adjourned part-heard. It resumed on 16 July and the last day of evidence was 29 July 2025. It resumed again over 1 to 2 September for closing submissions.

Following handing down of the judgment on 8 December 2025, on 11 December 2025, it was announced by Sandie Peggie and her legal team that they would be pursuing an appeal.

The hearing was live tweeted by x.com/tribunaltweets and there's additional information here: tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/peggie-vs-fife-health-board-and-dr-005 and tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/peggie-vs-fife-health-board-and-dr-bd6.

Links to previous threads #1 to #60 can be found in this thread: mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5379717-sandie-peggie-list-of-threads-covering-employment-tribunal-and-afterwards

Thread 60: mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5461133-sandie-peggie-vs-nhs-fife-health-board-and-dr-beth-upton-following-employment-tribunal-judgment-thread-60 16 December 2025 to 8 January 2026

How many threads reach 60+? Thank you, @nauticant, I appreciate your efforts

Awaiting the appeal announcement with bated breath.

You are a star nauticant

Thank you Nauticant 🙏❤️

Checking in…

Thanks for new thread! How many more 😂

placemarking.
We could easily double these threads by the time this shambles is all over.
When is the appeal submission due by?

19 January assuming that the formal corrections didn't meddle with that and there's no request for, and granting of, an extension of time. Such an extension would be unusual but then we're not looking at a usual case.

<makes sad eyes in the direction of incomplete thread #60>

oops sorry @nauticant
I hope the appeal is heard before the elections

Timing with the election would be stupendous. Philipson waited until she the Labour deputy leadership election was out of the way before she started playing games with the guidance. I voted for her in that contest on the least worst principle. Lucy Powell being the only alternative.
Any chance the Darlington nurses decision will surface soon? Clear conflicts between the two judgments, leaving aside factual differences and these being first instance, might surely influence the appeal.

The Darlington Nurses case, importantly numerous voices of complaint in contrast to one brave complaint above the parapet of SP should have bearing on its outcome, positively I hope. That judgement will be scrutinised in minutiae. Any organisation government or otherwise can no longer use the excuse of no or few complaints for justification of a ‘free for all’ in SSS etc for half the population. Adequate provision for everyone is all that’s being asked for. Recruitment policies/processes should be crystal clear about what is/not provided and accorded to the law. I thought there was mention somewhere about ‘clear blue line on the issue’ apt I thought.

Clear blue line just makes me think of pregnancy test kits. Oh look! Pregnancy - something transwomen will never experience!

Bitchy? No. ANGRY.

I've put a link on the petition board to the Government Petition started by James Esses against the Streeting Trial

Government Petition against the Streeting Trial of Puberty Blockers on children. | Mumsnet https://share.google/5eTSv1ixRAKacTBXv

Please sign, if you haven't already, and share if you can. We can't link petitions directly except on that board which was a bugger to find...classified!...ffs...

Thank you for this.

I have signed.

I imaging the judge in the Darlington Nurses case is very carefully cross checking every reference with the original judgements to make sure they are accurate. Plus, given the exchanges with Jo Phoenix I think he had a better grasp of statistics.

I have signed, so has the DH

I've also signed - thanks for the heads up

Remember to call it the Streeting Trial with optional 'on children' or 'of Puberty blockers on children' if clarification is needed.

Signed. I see it's already passed the 10k needed for a written response, so now we just need to get it to the 100k for a debate.

The Darlington judge did appear less ideologically hostile and more ready to listen and learn than Kemp - while also having a much better grasp of timekeeping.

Well, he’ll certainly be aware of the level of scrutiny he can expect, which apparently Kemp was not. Or thought would not spot the joins

I've just signed and shared on X and the total is now over 22,000.

Holy cows - that’s gone up by 10,000 just since lunchtime!

I was 26000 and something