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May 24 • 75 tweets • 10 min read
Hello and welcome to day 5 of Denise Fahmy's employment tribunal against Arts Council England (ACE), with counsels' closing submissions starting at 10.30am.
Catch up with yesterday & all other live tweeting sessions at our substack. tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/denise-fahmy…
As permission for remote access was refused, the Tribunal tweets reporters are attending this hearing in person.
It's a beautiful sunny day here.
May 23 • 53 tweets • 9 min read
Hello and welcome to DAY 4 afternoon of Denise Fahmy's employment tribunal against Arts Council England (ACE).
We expect ACE witness, Paul Roberts to give his evidence
2am start.
AP: won't go through all transcript but theme is ppl were anti GC and pro trans and upset about grant. Bulk of it?
SM: certainly lot of people who asserted LGBa was anti trans group and disagreed with DF comments.
AP: u didn't say u disagreed u just ignored her comments
SM: the ppl disagreed
AP: re ur decision about ur opinion that LGBA being anti trans...where 2 beliefs are protected it's not appropriate for senior manager like u to comment on your opinion
May 23 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
AP: [reads] that's anti GC isnt it?
SM: I agree
AP: [reads] agree anti GC?
SM: yes
AP: it's suggesting that person grant director may have been biased and engineered award. Serious allegation?
SM: I agree that's why we insist on due diligence so no question decisions not taken with ulterior motives
AP: 15 thumbs up emojis indicating GC staff can't be trusted?
SM: shows they agree with her message
May 23 • 36 tweets • 6 min read
Hello and welcome to DAY 4 of Denise Fahmy's employment tribunal against Arts Council England (ACE).
Today ACE Deputy chief exec, Simon Mellor, will give his evidence.
10am start
Catch up with yesterday & all other live tweeting sessions at our substack.
EJ or J: Employment Judge Shepherd
DF: Denise Fahmy, claimant
AC: Arts Council England, respondent
AP: Anya Palmer, barrister for DF
AM: Aileen McColgan KC, barrister for AC
IM: Ian Matthews, HR Director at AC
SM: Simon Mellor, Deputy Chief Exec of AC
May 22 • 93 tweets • 15 min read
Welcome back to DAY 3 afternoon session of Denise Fahmy's employment tribunal against Arts Council England (ACE).
We continue with Director of HR of ACE, Ian Matthews, being cross examined by Anya Palmer KC
2am start.
Hello and welcome to DAY 3 of Denise Fahmy's employment tribunal against Arts Council England (ACE).
Today we expect the Claimant, Denise Fahmy, to conclude her evidence and then hear from other witnesses.
10am start.
Catch up with last week here: tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/denise-fahmy…
Tribunal Tweets was not granted remote access and so we are here in person all week at Leeds Employment Tribunal. It's a bright sunny day in Leeds.
May 19 • 63 tweets • 11 min read
Afternoon session begins.
AM - you didn't complain about SM immediately after the Teams meeting because you were worried about consequences. The first part of your response - you are quite robust, you tick him, one side of the argument, didn't foster a good environment,
AM - thats not a person who is afraid to express views.
DF - it was robust but it was my pride speaking. I did feel that I couldn't at that point raise an objection to how he behaved because I wouldn't have been supported.
AM - but you did raise an objection to his behaviour.
May 19 • 91 tweets • 16 min read
Good morning, we are at the Employment Tribunal today for day 2 of Denise Fahmy v Arts Council England (ACE). Denise claims she was victimised and harassed due to her gender critical beliefs.
We are not yet certain we will be given permission to live tweet.
Abbreviations:
EJ or J: Employment Judge Shepherd
DF: Denise Fahmy, claimant
AC: Arts Council England, respondent
AP: Anya Palmer, barrister for DF
AM: Aileen McColgan KC, barrister for AC
May 18 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Good morning, we are at the Employment Tribunal today for day 1 of Denise Fahmy v Arts Council England (ACE). Denise claims she was victimised and harassed due to her gender critical beliefs.
The alleged detriments occurred after Denise spoke in support of ACE awarding a grant to the LGB Alliance @AllianceLGB
May 10 • 156 tweets • 18 min read
Good morning.
We hope today to be tweeting the second (and final) day of Clare Page's appeal against the ICO - our Substack page on the case, including the evidence heard last week, is here: tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/foi-appeal-t…
Today will be closing submissions from the two barristers:
ZG = Zoe Gannon, counsel for
CP = Clare Page, the appellant
May 9 • 51 tweets • 9 min read
We are reporting for the first time from a Disciplinary Tribunal Panel of the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) this morning at 10am.
The independent panel will hear submissions & decide if the IFoA has the legal right to discipline former member, Patrick Lee. #OpenJustice
The substantive issues on freedom of speech relating to complaints about social media posts Patrick Lee made whilst he was an member will not be considered today.
May 3 • 171 tweets • 23 min read
Good afternoon. We shall shortly be reporting from the afternoon session Clare Page's appeal against an ICO ruling.
CP: the Appellant, Clare Page
ZG: Zoe Gannon, barrister for CP
May 3 • 64 tweets • 6 min read
New thread when we return to the session at 12.05.
Those present are Clare Page (CP) - mother who made the complaint about School of Sexuality Education (SSE)
Zoe Gannon (ZG) counsel for CP
Susan Wright (SW) counsel for SSE
Dolly Padalia (DP) CEO of SSE
Judge Buckley (JB)
We are back. JB is discussing emails requesting the bundles by observers
May 3 • 135 tweets • 13 min read
Just awaiting the judge and panel members
Judge Buckley (JB) has arrived. We are starting
Mar 22 • 72 tweets • 12 min read
Good afternoon. We shall be tweeting the afternoon hearing in the second day of Maya Forstater's remedy hearing v CGD and others.
Today we shall be tweeting from the Remedy hearing in the case of Forstater v CGDEurope, CGD and Masood Ahmed.
Last year Maya Forstater won her case at Employment Tribunal; the court found that her employer had discriminated against her because of her protected beliefs.
Mar 16 • 107 tweets • 12 min read
Good afternoon; we will be tweeting the afternoon session in the case at Employment Appeal Tribunal of Kristie Higgs v Farmor School.
@threadreaderapp J: I'm not going to give a judgement at this point as will take up time, but will allow recusal of laymember. Summarise that laymember at the time was a senior member of org that campaigned on issues opposed by A.@threadreaderapp J: He is inevitably associated with views expressed on opposite side of A. He was partic association taken partic interest campaigning in that respect. Difficult to see how general secretary could be disassociated from those views. Could be real possibility of unconscious bias.