Court of Appeal agrees that complaint by LGBT charity about ‘gender critical’ tweets did not induce or cause chambers’ discrimination of barrister (Bailey v Stonewall Equality Ltd and others)
Employment analysis: An employment tribunal did not err in rejecting a claim by a barrister who holds gender critical beliefs that Stonewall, an LGBT campaign charity, caused or induced her chambers to discriminate against her on the grounds of her protected belief, contrary to section 111 of the Equality Act 2010. It was open to the employment tribunal to conclude that the acts of the chambers broke the chain of causation between Stonewall’s complaint and the discrimination suffered by Ms Bailey. The dominant and effective cause of the detriment was GCC's investigation, not anything done by Stonewall, according to the Court of Appeal.