Thread by @peter_daly

Maya Forstater’s win is great news, but there’s still some way to go. Here is a thread of cases (mine and not mine) which still need funding…

There are three cases against the Green Party, with Shahra Ali’s up first, later this summer and then Emma Bateman’s. Dawn Furness’s case will be the last to be heard. The details of it are shocking (she alleges being assaulted twice). This is a big one:

crowdjustice.com/case/dawn-furn…

Shahrar Ali’s case is here:



Emma Bateman’s is here:

https://t.co/vzNWie8zmV

They’re not my cases but they have good lawyers working on them whose judgement I trust.crowdjustice.com/cases/?filter=…
crowdjustice.com/cases/?filter=…

James Esses’ claim is that he was expelled summarily from his university course, for holding gender-critical views. And he alleges a lot more besides. I’m doing this one, instructing Akua Reindorf KC:

crowdjustice.com/case/expelled-…

Dr Laura Favaro was employed conduct academic research into the “gender wars”. She did so and wrote an article summarising her initial findings. Now she’s been dismissed, and her research has been frozen:

crowdjustice.com/case/academicf…

(I should add - these are in no particular order - and if there are cases that should be added to this list, please DM and I will add them)

Jo Phoenix is a renowned criminologist. She elicited the Reindorf Review, and the phrase “the law as it is, not as Stonewall would like it to be”. Her claim is against the OU. She’s got Ben Cooper and Annie Powell in her team, which is therefore A1:

crowdjustice.com/case/harassed-…

At Doyle Clayton, we’re also acting for Pilgrim Tucker. This is another case against the Open University. Please read the details of this one:

crowdjustice.com/case/pilgrim-t…

We get judgment in Mermaids’ (Good Law Project) appeal against LGB Alliance next week. GLP have been explicit that if they lose, they will try to appeal. Are same-sex attracted people allowed their own charity?

crowdjustice.com/case/save-lgb-…

These are some of the cases that are crowdfunded. There are more (@LevinsLaw - don’t you have one/some?). Many, many more are privately funded because people still can’t go public. Maya’s shifted the landscape, but there’s still some way to go.

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https://twitter.com/levinslaw/status/1674897653342109698

@LevinsLaw Gillian Philip’s case is an example of how women in atypical/precarious employment are particularly vulnerable to discrimination because of their gender-critical belief - a recurring theme in these cases:

crowdjustice.com/case/gillian-p…

And more (am *mortified* to have missed these off list):

@SarahSurviving is having to sue to establish female-only rape crisis services.

Liz McGlone and didlaw instructing Karon Monaghan KC and Naomi Cunningham.

crowdjustice.com/case/help-sara…

@SarahSurviving Rachel Meade is a social worker. Her claim is against her employer and her regulator, Social Work England. The implications of a discriminatory regulator are plainly very serious.

This one’s coming up soon. Shazia Khan instructing Naomi Cunningham.

crowdjustice.com/case/unlawful-…

And as with regulators, so with Trade Unions: institutions supposed to protect us from discrimination accused of perpetrating it.
@LevinsLaw acting for UCU members:

crowdjustice.com/case/in-defenc…

@LevinsLaw At Doyle Clayton, we’re also acting for Sibyl Ruth. This has the atypical/precarious employment facet of other cases, but also a combined age/sex indirect discrimination claim. Chris Milsom is acting. The facts of this one are remarkable:

crowdjustice.com/case/sibyl-rut…

@LevinsLaw As an aside - Free Speech Union are helping Sybil. They’ve also helped several of our other clients, many/most of whom are not public. I don’t come from the same political tradition as @SpeechUnion, but I can’t speak highly enough of their work. (1/2)

@SpeechUnion (2/2) If @SpeechUnion didn’t exist, someone would need to invent them. I’m very glad Toby Young did, and so are several current and former clients.