Allison Bailey vs Stonewall and Garden Court Chambers - Closing Submissions

Allison Bailey, is suing her chambers, members of her chambers and Stonewall, a UK charity, in the Central London Employment Tribunal (the 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 our summary of the case.

Closing submissions were heard today, 20 June 2022. There is no information about when to expect the tribunal judgement.

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Morning 20 June - AH, IO for the respondents

Afternoon 20 June - BC for claimant

Closing submissions

The claimant and counsel have chosen to make the full text of their closing submission publicly available. See here - Claimant’s Closing Submission. This is voluntary and permissible. We invite both respondents to likewise make their submissions publicly available and will post here if they are made available.

Key Abbreviations

EJ - Employment Judge Sarah Goodman

AB - Allison Bailey, Claimant
BC - Ben Cooper QC barrister for AB

SW - Stonewall (respondent 1)
IO - Ijeoma Omambala QC barrister for Stonewall
RW - Robin White barrister assisting IO

GC - Garden Court Chambers (respondent 2)
AH - Andrew Hochhauser QC barrister for GC
JR - Jane Russell barrister assisting AH