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May 19 47 tweets 9 min read
Tribunal is taking a short break. We will return with part two of the morning session. NR has said he expects to go until lunchtime with this witness.
AH - Angela Harrington, heard C's appeal of dismissal Participants returning to the room.
May 19 60 tweets 12 min read
The ET of Lorna Young vs Manchester City Council is expected to resume this morning, 19 May 2026, at 10 am. Image Our complete coverage of the hearing to date can be found on our Substack here: open.substack.com/pub/tribunaltw…
May 18 40 tweets 5 min read
This is the second part of the day 6 afternoon session in Lorna Young vs Manchester City Council at employment tribunal. Part 1 is here The court is currently taking a short break; after which Nathan Roberts barrister for the C will continue cross-examination of MCC witness Sharmila Kar.
May 18 102 tweets 13 min read
Good afternoon; this is day 6 in the hearing at employment tribunal of Lorna Young vs Manchester City Council. Image This morning's coverage is at
May 18 27 tweets 6 min read
5 mins
NR They were all GC news
SN Yes
NR They'd whipped themselves up by finding a GC account
SN [missed]
NR On 16 Feb this letter to the C is about Ix into GG account
SN Yes
NR U use a passive voice, common from the R, re an initial Ix and whether to Ix further. U use the same passive voice. Who did the initial review
SN Understand Nick McMillan looked at it and then referred account to HR
NR who concluded need further Ix
SN With HR but cant recall who
NR Who made the decison. Was it you
SN It was made w HR. I cant recall
May 18 48 tweets 9 min read
Good morning. We will shortly be live tweeting day 6 of the employment tribunal of LY vs Manchester City Council (MCC).
LY holds gender critical views and is Catholic and was formerly Equality Team Manager at MCC. She was dismissed from this role due to her social media content. Image LY claims:
(a) Direct discrimination because of religion or belief;
(b) Harassment related to religion or belief;
(c) Discrimination arising from disability;
(d) Harassment related to disability;
(e) Unfair dismissal.
May 15 66 tweets 8 min read
This afternoon's session is predicted to begin at 2pm.
We are reporting from Day 5 of the Employment Tribunal case brought by Lorna Young against her former employer Manchester City Council. Image Our Substack page on the case (including reporting from the earlier days of the hearing) is at
tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/lorna-young-…
May 15 48 tweets 6 min read
This is part 2 of the morning session of day 5 in the case at employment tribunal brought by Lorna Young against Manchester City Council. Part 1 of today's hearing is here The court is taking a short break, after which cross-examination of the witness Jo Johnston - Head of Reform & Innovation at MCC) will continue.
May 15 74 tweets 9 min read
Today we shall be tweeting from day 5 of the Employment Tribunal case brought by Lorna Young against her former employer Manchester City Council. Image Our Substack page on the case (including reporting from the earlier days of the hearing) is at tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/lorna-young-…
May 14 72 tweets 11 min read
We're reporting the second part of this afternoon's session of the Employment Tribunal case brought by Lorna Young against her former employer Manchester City Council. Image Please see our Ss page on the case (including reporting from the earlier days of the hearing) and abbreviations used. We're a collective of volunteer citizen journalists and are not paid for our work. Please support us by subscribing to our Ss (link in bio above) which funds our digital & some travel costs.
May 14 67 tweets 7 min read
We're about to start live tweeting this pms session of day 3 of LY v Manchester City Council. She alleges discrimination due to her GC and religious beliefs.
This morning's session is here: The Judge is swearing in the witness, Jo Johnson.
May 14 85 tweets 12 min read
This is part 2 of the morning session on day 4 of Lorna Young's case at employment tribunal against Manchester City Council. Part 1 of the session is here The court is currently taking a 15 minute mid-morning break.
May 14 81 tweets 11 min read
Today we shall be tweeting from day 4 of the Employment Tribunal case brought by Lorna Young against her former employer Manchester City Council. Image Our Substack page on the case (including reporting from the earlier days of the hearing) is at tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/lorna-young-…
May 13 37 tweets 7 min read
This is the second part of the morning session on Day 2 of Lorna Young (LY) v Manchester City Council (MCC), held at Manchester Employment Tribunal. AM Apologies. I have one more page around this time - a response from Nick McMillan, so sorry to hear etc. So there was a response from HR
LY Nick and I go back a long way. He rang me although I couldn't answer. I saw that email.
AM Do you know why he rang you
May 13 52 tweets 9 min read
This is Day 2, morning session, of Lorna Young (LY) v Manchester City Council (MCC), held at Manchester Employment Tribunal. We expect to begin at 9.30. Image
May 12 49 tweets 6 min read
We will continue with the second part of this afternoon's hearing afer a break.
We've rejoined.
AM - paras 41 of SN's WS, she talks abt emails recd. She was out of office and picked up on 22 Nov. Trib will hear that out of offcie included 17 Nov. Came back day you met with her. You will have recd an out of office.
LY I don't recall that.
May 12 57 tweets 8 min read
We will shortly be reporting at 2pm on the Manchester Employment Tribunal covering Lorna Young (LY) vs Manchester City Council (MCC).
LY is gender critical and Catholic and was formerly Equality Team Manager at MCC. She was dismissed from this role due to her social media content.Image Panel members must have already read the case papers as they had no reading time today. Here's this morning's reporting. Lorna Young has started giving evidence.
May 12 75 tweets 14 min read
We will shortly be live tweeting from Manchester Employment Tribunal covering Lorna Young (LY) vs Manchester City Council (MCC).
LY is gender critical and Catholic and was formerly Equality Team Manager at MCC. She was dismissed from this role due to her social media content. Image LY claims:
(a) Direct discrimination because of religion or belief;
(b) Harassment related to religion or belief;
(c) Discrimination arising from disability;
(d) Harassment related to disibility;
(e) Unfair dismissal.
May 6 16 tweets 3 min read
Part 2 of the morning session here. We resume.
J - I want to go back to parts of C's pleaded case. What is the act of indirect discrimination against the C and where do we see it.
NC - I say it is the state of affairs, that the R has adopted GI as it's institutional belief.
J - what is the act of indirect discrim
May 6 88 tweets 16 min read
We expect to be reporting this morning from 10 am on a preliminary hearing in MacDonald (C) vs Public and Commercial Services Union (R). The R is seeking to strike out significant portions of C's claim. Image Link to our Substack with background on the case and the preliminary hearing can be found here.
open.substack.com/pub/tribunaltw…
Mar 20 8 tweets 1 min read
This is part 2 of day 5 in the case of LS vs NHSE England: part 1 of this session's tweeting is at The court is at present taking a short break, and we expect to resume about 3.45pm.