Sandie Peggie: Employment Tribunal, associated legal claims, and related matters - thread #64

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TLDR version: Sandie Peggie vs Royal College of Nursing is currently being heard. The hearing started on Wednesday 23 September 2026 and is scheduled to end on Thursday 1 October 2026.

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 were of sexual harassment, harassment related to a protected belief, indirect discrimination and victimisation. Dr Upton claimed 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 after a prolonged process judgment was handed down on 8 December 2025. That judgment is being appealed and an appeal hearing is expected to take place in 2027.

Additional legal claims have been raised. Sandie Peggie is taking action against the Royal College of Nursing, against three senior managers who were witnesses in the employment tribunal - Dr Kate Searle, Dr Maggie Currer and Esther Davidson, against Carol Potter, the chief executive of NHS Fife, for victimisation, against NHS Fife for discrimination, and against its director of people and culture David Miller for harassment. In addition, Sandie Peggie is being investigated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council over fitness to practice.

The past proceedings were live tweeted by www.x.com/tribunaltweets. Tribunal Tweets are likely to be providing coverage in current and future proceedings. There's additional information on Tribunal Tweets' substack: www.tribunaltweets.substack.com/.

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

Thread 61: www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5472628-sandie-peggie-vs-nhs-fife-health-board-and-dr-beth-upton-following-employment-tribunal-judgment-thread-61 8 January 2026 to 3 August 2026

Thread 62: www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5562302-sandie-peggie-vs-nhs-fife-health-board-and-dr-beth-upton-following-employment-tribunal-judgment-thread-62 3 August 2026 to 24 September 2026

Thread 63: www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5581909-sandie-peggie-employment-tribunal-associated-legal-claims-and-related-matters-thread-63 24 September 2026 to 27 September 2026

It's all topsy turvy

Jumping ahead to say how much I enjoy an NC 'we'll see later'. Builds suspense better than the Jaws theme.

Indeed!

Yes, that's going to leave him sweating tonight.

Well it's not a self-adopted community label (like gender critical feminism).. It's a label that's imposed externally and I've noticed that it's mostly used on these forums as a slur to identify the type of person they ridicule and despise.

With any luck he'll catch her cold.

I'm wondering if he's looking at early morning flights to Australia!

Structural problem with organising institutions where the skilled work is done by the lowly front line staff. Teaching is the same. Management pays more than skilled work. Baffling.

He progressively dropped himself further into the poop as his evidence continued. And he's got to get back in the witness box tomorrow!

Hopefully I can follow along a bit tomorrow

No. Trans rights activists just takes longer to type.

Isn't there also a (c), edited the pronouns that she used in her complaint so that they corresponded to GI preference

And he really shouldn't have done that. Ignoring who is right and who is wrong on the pronoun subject he materially changed the statement she gave.

Changing the words that a member has used in your reporting is a very wrong thing to do - especially if the union rep thought that the case would end up in court. Isn't it effectively lying?
The union rep must have been under the impression that it was a really, really important thing to do.
Perhaps this reflects how seriously the internal union leadership takes its external statements that TWAW etc.

ETA: bits in italics

Quite. By changing to 'she' it implied SP accepted the transgender status of Dr Upton. Whereas as a 'he' it was clear SP was complaining about a man.

I started work in the NHS in 2002. I had equality and subconscious bias training pretty much annually for the first 6 or 7 years. After 2010? Not a squeak. DEI, yes, but much more 'understanding the EA' than 'think about own behaviour/beliefs'. And that got steadily more skewed over the years. In 2024 I refused to complete it because it was wrong about the law. Had been since about 2020, but in previous years I'd completed and then complained (to no response).

On the subject of men in women's spaces...has SF said that there was no policy AND it was a grey area AND that it was policy AND practice? Or am I doing him a disservice?

I believe he did indeed say all those things. What a tangled web he weaved.

Well it's not a self-adopted community label (like gender critical feminism).

It's not self-adopted, there's no such thing as gender critical feminism, only Feminism, which stands for a belief in or advocacy of women's social, political, and economic rights, especially with regard to equality of the sexes.
The label gender critical feminism was imposed on Feminists by the intersectional/omnicause feminist's who betrayed feminism and women when they decided to 'include' everything under the sun into feminism and have rendered the female a footnote in her own cause.

That'll just hold the trial up, while he recovers 😂 My DH has caught my head cold, and has been unable to move off the settee for 3 days!
I note NC has had no problem carrying on.

I don't agree with this at all.
Also there are many many different types/ shades of feminism.

I bet there was a dressing gown of doom involved!

Yes, he put words in SP mouth, much like he claims she was taking about IB, even though SP never said that to him, she only said 'it's like putting men in women's prsions, I do hope the Judge noticed both of those things.

None of which include men.

Impressive.

If only he'd done his job properly!