We are at the Royal Courts of Justice today. We hope to live tweet the judicial review brought by Sex Matters against the National Police Chiefs' Council and the British Transport Police.
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This is the second session of the morning on 10th July, in the case of Samantha Tempest v DEFRA and Rural Payments Agency. We expect to restart at 11.25
The first session of the morning can be found here:
HH - so we can see at row 193, 20 June 23, post in Col F can see that a complaint raised AM policing gender equality network and sort out by going into network
What we can see in terms of mod, reviewed on 21 June, were you involved?
CA - I cant remember
HH - seen as some degree of sarcasm but not over line.
HH the outcome was that Liz decided to close thread down, quite reasonable response from Ms Willow, but AM assessment of conduct was sarcastic OK. Another eg of downplaying GC comments
CA - don't accept, we were endeav to be fair to everybody
Good morning. This is the first morning session on 10th July, in the case of Samantha Tempest v DEFRA & Rural Payments Agency. We expect to start at 9.30am.
Our Substack page on the case contains all the previous sessions, background information, witness statements (after witnesses are sworn), a number of relevant documents, and a full list of abbreviations: tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/tempest-vs-d…
Tempest (the claimant or C) is claiming discrimination, harassment and/or victimisation on grounds of gender reassignment. Central to the claim is the Sex Equality and Equity Network in the Civil Service (SEEN or IP). SEEN has been granted right to intervene.
HH : final Q on this. Intent is to minimise protections available to T colleagues.
CA - no. Sets out the law accurately. Comes from frustration at slides in training misdescribing PCs . Refers to EHRC guidance for more info.
J & Panel reading long email chain.
J does the original post appear
HH it's the redline version we looked at. Complaints were received about this post,
CA yes
HH you helped EDW edit the post
CA yes
HH do you accept that you were helping her make it acceptable rather than
making an independent assessment
CA I knew that I and my training team were the recipients of this post; she was correct that there was an error in the training
HH the moderation process should have resulted in the post being removed, or remaining, in this case you helped eDW
Thursday, 9 July. The first afternoon session in Tempest v DEFRA and the Rural Payments agency is expected to start not before 2 pm. QT'd thread has links to our Substack, background on the case, abbreviations, etc.
HH, barrister for the Rs, will continue her cross examination of Caroline Airs, CA. CA was an Inclusive Practice and Senior Policy Advisor in the Defra group HR EDI team during the relevant time. She has since retired.