Allison Bailey vs Stonewall and Garden Court Chambers - Part 2

Proceedings - week of 9 May 2022

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. See more about the case here. Find here the interim judgements made by the ET to date.

Summary of proceedings from 25 April 2022 through 6 May 2022

Live-tweet threads - Week of 9 May 2022

9 May 2022 Morning - Cross examination of Allison Bailey by Andrew Hochhauser

9 May 2022 Afternoon - Cross examination of Allison Bailey by Andrew Hochhauser

10 May 2022 Morning - Examination of Zainab Al Farabi - Stonewall, Client Account Manager for Garden Court

10 May 2022 Afternoon - Examination of Kirrin Medcalf - Stonewall, Head of Trans Inclusion

10 May 2022 Afternoon - Examination of Kirrin Medcalf - Stonewall, Head of Trans Inclusion (covers same session as above - two reporters live-tweeting)

11 May 2022 Morning - cross examination of Allison Bailey by Andrew Hochhauser

11 May 2022 Afternoon - cross examination of Allison Bailey by Andrew Hochauser

11 May 2022 afternoon session included a tweet ascribing a specific comment to Robin White. RW denied making the comment. The EJ did not sanction anyone for the comment. See this update below.

12 May 2022 morning - cross examination of Allison Bailey by Andrew Hochhauser

12 May 2022 afternoon - cross examination of Allison Bailey by Andrew Hochhauser

13 May 2022 morning - further examination of Allison Bailey, testimony from Leslie Thomas of Garden Court Chambers

13 May 2022 afternoon - testimony from Leslie Thomas of Garden Court Chambers

Abbreviations:

THE COURT

EJ = Employment Judge Goodman hearing the case

Panel = any one of the three panel members (EJ and two lay members)

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

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