The Twitter Storm - Allison Bailey vs Stonewall and Garden Court Chambers

Twitter was a hot topic in a recent Central London Employment Tribunal. What were the key tweets in the tribunal of Allison Bailey vs Stonewall and Garden Court Chambers.

Some of Allison’s tweets during 2019 which expressed her gender critical beliefs are put forward in her claim  as what are known as protected acts.  These include:

a) Cotton ceiling or Morgan Page tweet 

b) LGB Alliance launch tweet 

Allison Bailey attended the meeting at Conway Hall on 22 October 2019 where attendees agreed to form the LGB Alliance.

c) Tweet thanking Sunday Times journalist Nicholas Hellen, which is critical of Stonewall

The Times article: Lesbian barrister: my bosses bowed to transgender 'hate mob' | News | The Sunday Times      Archive: https://archive.ph/2CjqY 

Stonewall’s complaint against tweets a) and c) was upheld by GCC following investigation by Maya Sikand QC. 

See detriment 4.

Garden Court Chambers’ response tweets  

In response to complaints on Twitter about Allison and her support for the LGB Alliance, Garden Court’s marketing team sent the same two tweets to seven different twitter users. The response tweets can be seen here and here. 

Archive: https://archive.ph/dXzNx

Example:

Tweets supportive of Allison

Supportive tweets were raised in cross examination of David De Menezes on 25 May, including those from Debbie Hayton and Helen Steel.

Debbie Hayton 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @DebbieHayton

@gardencourtlaw @TJTypes I am sorry that you are having to deal with an attempt to publicly bully and shame Allison Bailey. Sadly these appalling tactics are becoming all too common in society.

Helen Steel, a core participant in the Undercover Policing Inquiry, is represented by  Garden Court barristers. She is a long-time campaigner on environmental / social justice issues and protest; protest law being a core area of  Garden Court business.

Helen Steel @helensteel12

@gardencourtlaw @TJTypes Allison Bailey's comments are perfectly reasonable and trans activists should stop trying to bully her & other women into silence. Garden Court & other human rights lawyers need to start speaking up in defence of womens rights to freedom of expression and association.