NHS Fife

And I hope to do that relatively quickly, given the time that we've got.

The first of these cases is Peggy and NHS Fife.

In this case, this was a successful claim of harassment arising from the failure of an employer to revoke permission that had been given to a male colleague to use the female-only changing room following a complaint.

So the nurse who was the victim of sexual assault as a teenager complained to her employer about having to use a multi-user changing room with a male colleague.

What am I thinking about? It was, it was, it was last year.

Um, uh, Sandy Peggy sued her employer, NHS Fife, for discrimination and harassment arising out of, um, the treatment that, um, she had suffered resulting from a, a, a policy that NHS Fife had of permitting, um, biologically male people to access, uh, women-only or female-only, um, changing facilities.

Um, this, this hearing, as you're aware, um, con- continued over the course of last year, and we got judgment towards the end of, um, towards the end of last year or the start of, the start of this year.

Um, and, and I suppose the thing that we need to be kind of thinking about in terms of what this case is about is that, um, the first case, the first Peggy case, um, pertained to, uh, detriments that she will have suffered, um, up to a particular date.

And then, um, other detriments that she might have suffered after that date, um, had to be or will have to be addressed in a, in a separate set of cases or a separate case that Sandy Peggy is taking against, um, NHS Fife.

So the stuff that we've dealt with so far are the detriments that arise, um, in and around the claims, um, particularly up to the, um, the changing room policy, the incident in, um, the changing room with Dr. Upton in, you know, on Christmas Eve of twenty twenty-three, and then, um, the investigation of Sandy Peggy, um, for misconduct, her suspension, all of that stuff.

But of course, Sandy Peggy has been dealing with NHS Fife beyond that, so there was the continuation of the, um, the investigation and certain detriments that may have arisen as a result of either information that only came to light because of a, a late in the day disclosure from, um, NHS Fife that hadn't been disclosed up until the point that the tribunal started, so there was no point that Sandy Peggy would have been able to bring claims about that behavior or, um, the conduct of NHS Fife during the course of the, the previous, uh, case.

Um, and I'm thinking in particular here about the statement that NHS Fife made, um, effectively taking aim at Sandy Peggy and her legal team for bringing the case and, um, implying that they were responsible for some of the, um, distress that, uh, people in N- in NHS Fife had been experiencing as a result of kind of media attention, um, that the case was bringing.