We will shortly return for the second morning session on day 11 of evidence in the employment tribunal of Ms B Hutchison & others v County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.
[We return but no visuals]
NF I'm taking u to another correction of Miss Naylors piece [reads re bio sex and husbands] U put her down as withdrawn
Yes
NF Were u shaw she'd done this?
Yes
NF To p436. An email from another sig
NF Another signatory regarding the process. I'll give you a moment to read this. She was also marked as withdrawn
Yes
NF [reads] She's making it clear she has a concern and wants Rose in a different facility. In repsonse u write at p437
We will shortly be live tweeting the morning session of day 11 of evidence from the hearing of Ms B Hutchison & others v County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust being held at Newcastle Employment Tribunal.
A group of nurses from Darlington Memorial Hospital, are bringing this ET against their employers alleging sexual harassment & sex discrimination.
It concerns the Trust’s policy of allowing a male colleague Rose Henderson, identifying as a woman, to use the F changing room.
Our full coverage of this case and associated press articles can be found at
This is part 2 of the November 4th afternoon session in the case of Ms B Hutchison & others vs Durham & Darlington NHS Trust. Part 1 of this afternoon's hearing is here
The court is taking a short break at present. Cross-examination of Rose Henderson (RH) by the claimant's barrister Niazi Fetto KC (NF) has completed; after the break we will hear any questions from the Judge and panel and any re-examination by Simon Cheetham KC (SC) for the respondents.
Good afternoon; welcome to the afternoon session on 4th November in the case of Ms B Hutchinson & others vs County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust at Employment Tribunal.
When the hearing resumes at 2pm, Rose Henderson (the male colleague whose use of the female changing room at the hospital is the issue before the Tribunal) will continue giving evidence; this began this morning and our coverage is here archive.ph/m70QT
We will shortly be live tweeting day - of evidence from the hearing of Ms B Hutchison & others v County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust being held at Newcastle Employment Tribunal.
A group of nurses from Darlington Memorial Hospital are bringing this ET against their employers, alleging sexual harassment and sex discrimination
It concerns the Trust’s policy of allowing a male colleague, identifying as a woman named Rose Henderson, to use the female changing room.
The nurses argue that sharing the changing facilities with Henderson has caused them distress. One nurse, a survivor of sexual abuse, reported experiencing panic attacks.
After raising concerns with hospital management, they were informed they needed to be “re-educated” to be more 'inclusive' and offered an office space to change in instead of the female changing room.
We will be reporting the afternoon session of day 9 of evidence of the hearing of Ms B Hutchison & others v County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust being held at Newcastle Employment Tribunal.
We report what we hear in good faith but do not provide a verbatim transcript of proceedings
Apologies for the confusion in the previous thread due to the temporary absence of sound. The witness was Claire Gregory (CG) but has also been annotated as SG in error at times.