On Friday, I spent a good few hours in a small room at the Dundee Tribunal hearing centre, watched over by a clerk, going through the Sandie Peggie employment tribunal bundle. heraldscotland.com/news/25326411.…
The bundle includes all documents both legal teams think relevant to the tribunal, including the original complaint, witness statements, internal correspondence, screengrabs of WhatsApp messages, Facebook posts, disciplinary records, and responses from legal representatives.
It also includes minutes of the conduct hearing held in June, when senior officials at NHS Fife examined the complaints made by Dr Upton's about Ms Peggie. The nurse was ultimately cleared.
They reveal that Dr Upton had “previous difficulties” with a colleague and kept a personal log of “difficult interactions,”
The investigation minutes reveal patient safety was never compromised.
Dr Upton admitted concerns were about “potential issues that could happen in the future.”
Peggie’s supervisors said they had no concerns about her practice.
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Last month, in the wake of the Sandie Peggie tribunal, the EHRC asked NHS Fife to provide them with a copy of “any equality impact assessment for any policies or practices relevant to the provision of changing facilities for staff.”
When I asked the EHRC if they had received a response, a spokesperson said they had not.
When I asked why they had not replied to the watchdog, NHS Fife told me the letter - shared widely online and published on the EHRC’s website - was “yet to be received.”
Nevertheless, the board say they’re finalising their response “and this will be sent in the coming days.”
There will be a by-election in Glasgow North East sooner rather than later after Labour and Glasgow City Council ended their legal battle over Mary McNab who was barred from office just four days after being elected. heraldscotland.com/news/24901800.…
Some background: Scottish Labour's Mary McNab won the Glasgow North East by-election in Nov 2023 but was disqualified because she failed to quit her council job within the required timeframe - one working day after the election.
This is the first time in the UK that a newly elected councillor, who was also a council employee, didn’t resign their job. The law is pretty clear: you can’t hold both roles.
Nicola Sturgeon: "I have big political differences with Douglas Ross but even I am not as derogatory about him as his Tory colleagues." #FMQs
Sturgeon: "'Not a big figure, 'lightweight', these might be insults directed at the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, but actually they say something much deeper about the Westminster establishment's utter contempt for Scotland." #FMQs
Nicola Sturgeon: "If they can't even show basic respect for their colleagues, what chance do the rest of us have?" #FMQS
Labour shadow leader of the house Thangam Debbonaire asking Jacob Rees Mogg for a statement from the government on the "future of the union." She points out that even the SNP aren't "as rude as he about his Scottish colleagues".
Rees-Mogg says Douglas Ross "has office within the Conservative Party and it seems to me that people who hold office ought to support the leader of the party. That is the honourable and proper thing to do."
He says we are "particularly fortunate to have the Scottish Secretary that we have. He is such a formidable figure in Scottish politics and offers the strongest, the firmest, the clearest leadership."