Allison Bailey vs Stonewall and Garden Court Chambers - Part 4
Allison Bailey, is suing her chambers, members of her chambers and Stonewall, a UK charity in the Central London Employment Tribunal. Ms Bailey helped to set up a new organisation for lesbian, gay and bisexual people, the LGB Alliance, to provide an alternative to Stonewall. Stonewall allegedly had her investigated by her chambers.
Find here the interim judgements made by the ET to date.
Understanding Allison Bailey’s claim against Stonewall and Garden Court Chambers
Summary of proceedings from 25 April 2022 through 6 May 2022
Summary of proceedings from 9 - 13 May 2022
Summary of proceedings from 16 - 20 May 2022
Live-tweet threads week of 23 May 2022
Morning of 23 May 2022 - cross examination of Marc Willers, QC, joint head of Garden Court Chambers until 2020, by Ben Cooper
Afternoon 23 May 2022 - cross examination of Marc Willers, Stephen Clark and Liz Davies (also of Garden Court Chambers) by Ben Cooper.
Morning 24 May 2022 - cross examination of Cathryn McGahey QC (CM) and Tom Wainwright (TW) by Ben Cooper. CM - at the relevant time was Vice Chair of the Bar Council Ethics Committee and gave advice to GCC. TW - member of GCC and Trans Rights Working Group (TRWG)
Afternoon 24 May 2022 - cross examination of Colin Cook, clerk, Garden Court Chambers by Ben Cooper.
Morning 25 May 2022 - cross examination of David Renton, office mate of Allison Bailey and David De Menezes, Director of Communications and Marketing by Ben Cooper.
Afternoon 25 May 2022 - cross examination of David De Menezes, Director of Communications and Marketing for Garden Court Chambers, and Kathryn Cronin, joint Head of Garden Court Chambers until 2017 by Ben Cooper.
Morning 26 May 2022 - cross examination of Michelle Brewer, formerly of Garden Court Chambers, now a judge, by Ben Cooper.
Afternoon 26 May 2022 - cross examination of Stephanie Harrison, joint Head of Chambers for part of the period concerned in the claim, by Ben Cooper
Abbreviations:
THE COURT
EJ = Employment Judge Goodman hearing the case
Panel = any one of the three panel members (EJ and two lay members)
CD = refers to ‘core duties’ of barristers
THE CLAIMANT
AB: Allison Bailey, claimant
BC: Ben Cooper QC, barrister for AB
RESPONDENTS
SW = Stonewall Equality Limited (respondent 1)
IO = Ijeoma Omambala QC, barrister for SW
RW = Robin White assisting IO
GC = Garden Court Chambers Limited (respondent 2)
RM = Rajiv Menon QC & SH = Stephanie Harrison QC (jointly respondent 3 along with all members of GCC except AB)
(Respondents 2 & 3 are in practice indistinguishable; Garden Court Chambers are respondents both corporately and as the set of individuals making up the Chambers)
AH = Andrew Hochhauser QC, barrister for GC (respondents 2 & 3)
JR = Jane Russell assisting AH
STONEWALL
STAG = Stonewall Trans Advisory Group
RH = Ruth Hunt, Stonewall Chief Executive 2014-2019
PT = Paul Twocock, interim Stonewall Chief Executive 2019-2020 & Director of Campaigns, Policy & Research
NK = Nancy Kelley, Stonewall Chief Executive 2020 to date
RK = Reg Kheraj, Stonewall Client Account Manager for Garden Court Chambers to March 2019
ZA = Zainab Al-Farabi, Stonewall Client Account Manager for Garden Court Chambers from April 2019
Please note for all other persons listed below - they may not still be in the positions listed as the list is an "as of" one for the events being considered, approximately mid 2018 to early 2020.
KM = Kirrin Medcalf, Stonewall Head Of Trans Inclusion
KB = Katie Budd, Stonewall Workplace Resources Manager
TB = Tracey Burley, Stonewall Chief Operating Officer
VG = Victoria Green, Stonewall Director of Finance and Operations
LJ = Leon Jones, Stonewall IT Manager (consultant)
MK = Mark Kember, Stonewall Director of Membership Operations
SM = Stuart March, Stonewall Head of Data and Insights
SS = Sanjay Sood-Smith, Stonewall Director of Empowerment Programmes & then Stonewall Executive Director of Workplace & Community Programmes
CS = Charlotte Suttle, Stonewall Senior Workplace Programmes Manager
KW = Kate Williams, Head of Memberships - Private Sector
AD = Alex Drummond. a member of STAG
SK = Shaan Knan, LGBT Consortium Trans Organisations Network Officer, a member of STAG
GARDEN COURT CHAMBERS
TRWG = Trans Rights Working Group
Members of Chambers:
HB = Henry Blaxland QC, Head of Chambers until 2017
MB = Michelle Brewer
SC = Stephen Clark
KC = Kathryn Cronin, joint Head of Chambers until 2017
MW = Marc Willers QC, joint Head of Chambers until 2020
LD = Liz Davies QC, joint Head of Chambers from 2020
MG = Mark Gatley [now QC]
KH = Kirsten Heaven
LH = Louise Hooper
JK = Judy Khan QC, joint Head of Chambers 2016-2020 Chair 2020-2021
SSL = Shu Shin Luh
SL = Stephen Lue
AM = Allison Monroe QC
DR = David Renton
MR = Marguerite Russell
AS = Alex Sharpe
MS = Maya Sikand [now QC]
SS = Stephen Simblet [now QC]
LS = Leslie Thomas QC, Chair and joint Head of Chambers to 2020
TW = Tom Wainright
EW = Elizabeth Woodcraft
Clerks:
MB = Michael Barrett
CC = Colin Cook
MOD = Matt O'Down
CE = Christian Eleftheriou
LH = Luke Harvey
CS = Chloe Skingsley
CT = Charlie Tennent
Other Chambers staff:
DM = David De Menezes, Director of Communications and Marketing
GF = Glenn Fletcher, Chief Executive and Board member to end 2019
MHL = Mia Hakl-Law, Director of Human Resources and Operations
EN = Emman Nash, Head of Public Law Practice Team
DN = David Neale, legal researcher
ST = Sharon Thomas, Head of Human Resources and Operations 9/18-3/19
BAR STANDARDS BOARD / BAR COUNCIL
CM = Cathrun McGahey QC, Vice Chair of Bar Ethics Committee
AP = Amit Popat, Head of Equality and Access to Justice
SM = Sam Mercer, Executive of Bar Council Equality, Diversity and Social Mobility Committee