Author: Nick Wallis
-
NHS knew of concerns about trans Dr in 2020
Whistleblower told NHS Sussex and NHS England of problems with Dr Sam Hall’s methods and was accused of transphobia. An NHS Doctor raised the alarm about the activities of Dr Sam Hall in 2020, a full five years before NHS Sussex started an investigation into Brighton’s WellBN clinic – which concluded it had it caused…
-
Peggie v RCN Day 7: Closing Submissions
Today was the final day of the Peggie v RCN employmeny tribunal in which Nurse Sandie Peggie is making three claims against her union, the Royal College of Nursing. Peggie believes: Peggie says the reason for the above is because of her gender critical views. Therefore her union – which she submits is in the…
-
Peggie v RCN Day 6: Patricia Marquis
Patricia Marquis, the Executive Director of the Royal College of Nursing in England is obviously an intelligent, personable and compassionate individual with the requisite element of corporate steel required to reach the higher echelons of large organisation. At times today she was at a loss to answer some of the questions being put to her…
-
Peggie v RCN Day 5: Gillian Tait
Most of today was taken up with the evidence of RCN Senior Officer Gillian Tait, but the first hour and forty minutes was dedicated to finishing the cross-examination of Union Officer Stuart Fraser – Tait’s direct report. Naomi Cunningham, Sandie Peggie’s barrister, had two main strands to her questioning of Fraser. The first was about…
-
Peggie v RCN Day 4 Pt 2: Stuart Fraser
This is part two of my report into Day 4 of Nurse Sandie Peggie’s employment tribunal claim against the Royal College of Nursing. You can read Part 1 “Nurses Assemble”, here. As with Friday’s cross-examination of Norman Provan, the interest is not in what the RCN man said in evidence, but the chain of logic…
-
Peggie v RCN Day 4 Pt 1: Nurses Assemble
This is part one of my report into Day 4 of Nurse Sandie Peggie’s employment tribunal claim against the Royal College of Nursing. You can read part two “Peggie v RCN Day 4 Pt 2: Stuart Fraser” here. The featured evidence in the report below came from two nurses in England who got into difficulties…
-
Peggie v RCN Day 3: unProvan
I want to focus my Day 3 report on a specific passage of cross-examination which to my mind went beyond the (undoubtedly very important) rights and wrongs of Sandie Peggie’s claim against the RCN. It demonstrated the effectiveness of using a courtroom to hold power to account. Norman Provan was today’s only witness. He is…
-
Peggie v RCN Day 2: Trans-Organisational Madness
The witnesses who gave evidence today were not directly connected to Sandie Peggie’s case, but they all had direct experience of dealing with the Royal College of Nursing. They painted a picture of a union which had happily waved gender ideology into their organisation, and when it started causing chaos, appeared both institutionally and intellectually…
-
Peggie v RCN Day 1: Getting Taken Seriously
Sandie Peggie was back in the witness box today for the first time since her epic tribunal against NHS Fife. Peggie is claiming discrimination against her for her gender critical beliefs, but this time the fight is against her union, the Royal College of Nursing. Both cases originated from events which began in August 2023…
-
Peggie v RCN: “I want this to be a wake-up call”
This is an expanded and re-edited version of the interview which appeared in the Sunday Times on 20 September: Although she seems a little weary when we speak, there’s a certain steel about Sandie Peggie. “I do feel like a poster girl,” she says. “I’m kind of glad that I’m at the forefront of it.” It requires…
