Category: Supreme Court
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Call for NHS therapists to “educate” clients
The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) has proposed requiring its therapists to “actively promote inclusion” during therapy sessions and “ensure that any discriminatory attitudes and behaviours are challenged” when expressed by patients. The BABCP regulates psychotherapists and BABCP accreditation is considered important for any Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT) working in the NHS.…
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Sex and Gender Law Association is Go
Fair play to Simon Cheetham KC. He opened his talk by thanking the chair Dr Julius Grower for listing the gender cases he’d been involved with, adding “what that flattering biography failed to mention is that in terms of the cases involving these issues, I’ve lost them all.” There was laughter, compounded by his pay…
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NHS Doctor Attacks Videographer
On Saturday 11 April various women’s groups around the country got together for a series of events under the One Year On banner, marking the first anniversary of the For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling. The 2025 ruling essentially established that in law, the word “woman” definitely means biological female. The One Year On event…
