Ruling amended as tribunal admits ‘clerical mistakes’
In Britain, the judgment in the tribunal of a nurse suspended from her job after complaining about transgender use of single-sex changing rooms has been amended following complaints about a legal reference it contained.
The tribunal has issued a ‘certificate of correction’ stating there had been "clerical mistake(s), error(s)or omissions(s)".
This week, the employment tribunal set out four ways in which NHS Fife harassed Nurse Sandie Peggie but dismissed all her other claims.
Campaigners said the 312-page judgment contained a "made-up" quote from another legal case, which has now been amended.
Peggie and her legal team have now confirmed they will appeal the findings of the tribunal in the new year.
Suspended
Peggie had brought the case after she was suspended following a disagreement between her and transgender doctor Beth Upton.
The developments do not change the overall verdict.
The case hinged on whether biological males who identified as women could use female-only changing rooms.
Following the tribunal ruling, campaigner Maya Forstater said that a reference in the judgment to her own case against the Centre for Global Development Europe was "completely made up".
In the 312-page judgment, the tribunal said that NHS Fife should have acted on Peggie's concerns over Dr Upton's use of the female changing room.
The health board was found to have harassed the nurse by failing to revoke the doctor's permission on an interim basis until different work rotas took effect and, as a result, the pair were both present in the changing facilities on two occasions.
Solicitor Margaret Gribbon, acting for Peggie, confirmed the appeal during a press conference on Thursday (11 December) shortly after a certificate of correction was issued.
Gribbon stated that some of the findings in the ruling were "hugely problematic" and said NHS Fife had gone on an "archaeological dig to find material to discredit" Peggie.