{"id":111772,"date":"2025-09-03T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111772\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:19:08","slug":"sandie-peggie-raises-new-legal-action-against-nhs-fife-and-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111772\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandie Peggie raises new legal action against NHS Fife and staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The news comes a day after closing submissions in the case of Sandie Peggie<\/a>, who was suspended by the health board after complaining about having to share a changing room with Dr Beth Upton at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy<\/a> on Christmas Eve 2023.\n<\/p>\n

\n Peggie has lodged a claim against NHS Fife<\/a> and Dr Upton, citing the Equality Act 2010, including sexual harassment, harassment related to a protected belief, indirect discrimination, and victimisation.\n<\/p>\n

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\n She was placed on special leave after Dr Upton made an allegation of bullying and harassment, and cited concerns about \u201cpatient care\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n The nurse was told in March 2024 that the suspension would be lifted and returned to work in April that year.\n<\/p>\n

\n Peggie\u2019s solicitor said the new claim relates to the senior medical workers\u2019 opposition to another manager\u2019s decision to lift her suspension.\n<\/p>\n

\n Solicitor Margaret Gribbon said: \u201cI can confirm that on August 6, 2025 my client Sandie Peggie raised further legal proceedings in the employment tribunal against Fife health board (FHB), Dr Kate Searle, Dr Maggie Currer and Esther Davidson.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cAll four respondents\u2019 legal defences to the claim are expected to be received within the next fortnight.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe claim arises from these senior managers\u2019 opposition to the decision by another FHB manager in March 2024 to lift Sandie\u2019s suspension as set out by the evidence of the suspension review manager during the tribunal hearing in July.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe claim is one of alleged harassment and victimisation under the Equality Act 2010 relating to Sandie\u2019s gender critical beliefs and is a separate legal case from her ongoing claim against FHB and Dr Beth Upton.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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\n She said further claims of harassment and victimisation will also be lodged in the coming months on her client\u2019s behalf against the health board possibly more of its employees.Ms Gribbon said: \u201cThese additional claims relate to the decision to subject Sandie to a disciplinary hearing process and the issuing of a FHB media statement on July 18, 2025.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n Hours before the tribunal was due to restart in July, Gribbon announced Peggie had been cleared of gross misconduct allegations following a separate health board disciplinary hearing.\n<\/p>\n

\n The employment tribunal in Dundee<\/a> heard closing submissions on Monday and Tuesday, having heard from all its witnesses before it was adjourned at the end of July.\n<\/p>\n

\n Judge Sandy Kemp said the panel would begin four days of deliberations on the case on October 14, and its decision will be published in November at the earliest.\n<\/p>\n

\n The tribunal resumed in the summer after the UK Supreme Court ruled in April that the terms \u201cwoman\u201d and \u201csex\u201d in the 2010 Equality Act \u201crefer to a biological woman and biological sex\u201d, a ruling which has been publicly welcomed by Peggie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The news comes a day after closing submissions in the case of Sandie Peggie, who was suspended by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-111772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}