Author JK Rowling’s friend Allison Bailey has won her discrimination case against Garden Court Chambers. An Employment Tribunal has unanimously found that Miss Bailey, a barrister, lesbian, prominent gender critical campaigner and founding member of LGB Alliance, was discriminated against and victimised by her barristers’ chambers on the basis of her gender critical beliefs.
The case, heard over nearly six weeks earlier in the summer, was one of the most keenly watched of the year. Over 30 witnesses were cross examined in a trial conducted entirely over video live-link that attracted hundreds of online observers and many thousands more followed the live tweeting of the case.
The litigation was part of a pushback by gender critical feminists against attempts to replace biological sex with notions of self-identified gender identity.