The judgment in the Sandie Peggie NHS Fife trans row employment tribunal has been amended to remove a bogus quote.
The original 300-page document referenced a line supposedly from a major gender campaigner’s separate tribunal from 2021.
It related to the case brought by gender campaigner Maya Forstater – a supporter of Ms Peggie – against the Centre for Global Development Europe.
But Ms Forstater told us: “I know that judgment inside out, and I thought [after reading the NHS Fife judgment], those words are not there.”
And on Thursday afternoon, Judge Sandy Kemp admitted the blunder less than two hours after The Courier published a story bringing the issue to light.
The Judicial Office branded it a “clerical mistake, error or omission”, with the spurious section now replaced by a new paragraph from the Forstater judgment.
Ms Forstater – the chief executive of Sex Matters, the gender-critical charity backing Ms Peggie – said: “I knew this was wrong, and it’s good it’s being amended, but I am astonished that it happened and I would like an explanation of how it happened.”
The whole thing is an embarrassing shambles.
This judgment was already being questioned because it seems to fly in the face of the Supreme Court’s clear statement that single-sex facilities can only be on the basis of sex, not claimed identity. Errors like this just add to the growing feeling that this is not a sound judgment.
Back to the drawing board.
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Mick Hartley 
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