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Morrison Loses Tribunal Claim
Read More…: Morrison Loses Tribunal ClaimA former Inclusion/Audience Development Coordinator has lost her claim against Belfast Film Festival for discrimination, harassment and constructive dismissal. Sara Morrison was employed by the Belfast Film Festival (BFF) for more than four years between February2020 and November 2024, when she resigned. Her tribunal took place in November 2025 and was extensively covered by this blog, funded entirely by readers. In a ruling dated 17 July 2026, employment judge Lisa Sturgeon and her fellow panel member Michael McKeown (a third panel member having stepped down mid-trial after a recusal application) decided that “the claimant’s claims are dismissed in their entirety”.…
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NHS attack doctor asked by GMC to “reflect”
Read More…: NHS attack doctor asked by GMC to “reflect”An NHS doctor has been asked to “reflect” on the consequences of her decision to tear a cameraphone out of a videographer’s hand during a protest in Cardiff in April. On Saturday 11 April several women’s groups banded together under the brand “One Year Later” to mark the anniversary of the For Women Scotland Supreme Court decision in Cardiff’s Central Square. Dr Sophie Quinney, clinical director of the Welsh Gender Service (WGS), joined a noisy counter-protest at the same location. Quinney took exception to being filmed and attacked the videographer responsible. You can read a fuller version of what happened,…
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Sex Matters v CPS Day 2: More Tongue Action
Read More…: Sex Matters v CPS Day 2: More Tongue ActionThis article may be better understood by reading yesterday’s report which also includes a backgrounder explaining how this case came to court: Sex Matters v CPS Day 1: Is the CPS Guidance on Sex by Deception Lawful or Not? The following is a report of the second and final day of Sex Matters’ attempt to have the Crown Prosecution Service’s current guidance (the Guidance) for Prosecutors on sex by deception ruled unlawful. Today’s judicial review hearing ran for just over two hours. It started by allowing Clair Dobbin KC (who I last saw representing Gareth Jenkins at the Post Office…
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Is the CPS Guidance on Sex by Deception Lawful or Not?
Read More…: Is the CPS Guidance on Sex by Deception Lawful or Not?“Questions of deception and consent may involve more complex issues where the suspect is trans or non-binary.” We are half way through Sex Matters’ (SM) legal challenge to the Crown Prosecutors’ Guidance on Sex by Deception. Or as the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has it “Deception as to Sex“. The issue at hand is consent, and whether the Prosecution Guidance (the Guidance) successfully navigates the issues around people who present as, believe they are or pretend to be the opposite sex (or consider themselves “trans” or “non-binary”). Sex Matters contends the Guidance gets it badly wrong, and mis-states the law…
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Gender Surgery’s Incontinence Problem
Read More…: Gender Surgery’s Incontinence Problem“This data is shocking, but they’re carrying on. Chelsea and Westminster are training up new surgeons.” One of the bigger scandals surrounding gender treatment concerns the long term effects of both hormone use and surgery. A particular aspect of it was brought home this week at a Rethinking Youth Gender Medicine conference* by Elaine Miller – a self-described “fanny physio”. Miller has a nice sideline in pelvic floor-based stand-up comedy and is also the woman who famously flashed her merkin at Nicola Sturgeon in the Scottish parliament’s debating chamber in 2022. Her account of the stunt and the planning which…
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A Tempest in Leeds
Read More…: A Tempest in Leeds“Encountering colleagues wearing SEEN lanyards in the workplace makes me feel unsafe.” This is Samantha Tempest. Tempest works for the civil service, and today at Leeds Employment Tribunal he was cross-examined by a barrister representing his ultimate employers, Defra (the government Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). Tempest is taking Defra to court because they won’t ban the SEEN (Sex Equality and Equity Network) group from posting messages on the staff internal message board. Nor will they ban the group itself. Or stop staff from wearing SEEN lanyards. SEEN believe that biological sex is important and underpins the…
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Rigby, Rowling and a BBC News correction
Read More…: Rigby, Rowling and a BBC News correction“We apologise for the failures in our reporting.” On 1 June a man called Darren Rigby was sentenced to two years and four months in prison for sending threats to three all-girls schools on Merseyside. In emails sent across the space of a week in January this year, Rigby told one school he was already “inside… hiding with a sword and crossbow”, claiming his intention was “to injure and kill as many girls as I can”. He said anyone who “tries to stop me will also be shot”. In another email he wrote: “I am on my way to the…
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Morrison Judgment Delayed Again
Read More…: Morrison Judgment Delayed Again“My life has been on hold – work, plans, the future. Everything…” Sara Morrison, whose legal case against the Belfast Film Festival is being backed by JK Rowling, has been told she will need to wait at least another month before getting a ruling. Morrison took Belfast Film Festival to a two-week employment tribunal in November last year, claiming constructive dismissal. The origins in the case stem from a speech Morrison made in 2023 at a Let Women Speak rally in Belfast and her employer’s treatment of her thereafter. You can read the story here. The tribunal began on 10…
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Men in Scottish Women’s Prisons Unlawful
Read More…: Men in Scottish Women’s Prisons Unlawful“We are thrilled with the result, but it should never have come to this.” The Scottish government’s policy of putting men in women’s prisons has today been ruled unlawful. A judicial review found in favour of the campaign group For Women Scotland, who argued the current Scottish Prison Service policy of taking into account a prisoner’s gender identity was dangerous and wrong. Today Lady Ross, sitting in the Outer House Court of Session (Scotland’s equivalent of the High Court), ruled that “sex segregation in prisons in Scotland is lawful” and there is a “justification for maintaining sex segregation in prisons.”…
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Legal Gengar trial “shambles”
Read More…: Legal Gengar trial “shambles”Matthew Heath is the man behind Grift Watch. He is known as Legal Gengar. His trial for the harassment of Stephanie Hayden has been adjourned until 19 October. It was due to happen today. The date for today’s trial was set back in February. Unfortunately the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) seems unable to manage even bog-standard levels of competence, failing to disclose relevant material to the defence team, failing to respond to a Bad Character Application on Hayden (which Heath’s legal team had put together), failing to respond to a request for a case management hearing and failing to respond…
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