{"id":782346,"date":"2026-09-25T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782346\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:42:11","slug":"sandie-peggies-views-had-no-bearing-on-refusing-legal-support-union-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782346\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandie Peggie’s views had ‘no bearing’ on refusing legal support, union says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Central to Peggie’s most recent claim<\/a> is that she felt her union representative, Stuart Fraser, should have provided her with legal advice after he made contact with her in early January 2024.<\/p>\n

Weeks after this Peggie had a meeting with then-Alba MP Neale Hanvey, who put her in touch with the campaign group Sex Matters.<\/p>\n

The group provided Peggie with some funding and by May, she had launched employment tribunal action – with her own lawyer Margaret Gribbon – against both the health board and Dr Upton.<\/p>\n

She continued to seek legal assistance from the union, which was formally refused by Norman Provan in January 2025.<\/p>\n

Provan told the latest tribunal about circumstances where the union would not provide members with legal advice.<\/p>\n

He said this included if they had sought independent legal advice, and that members were made aware of this rule on the RCN website and in writing.<\/p>\n

Provan said Peggie’s case “didn’t fit those rules” and he had “applied those rules as I would in any case”.<\/p>\n

Asked by the RCN’s lawyer, David Hay KC, whether the nurse’s gender-critical beliefs had any influence on his decision, he replied: “They had no bearing on my decision. I applied the rules of the organisation.”<\/p>\n

The tribunal, held before judge Melanie Sangster in Dundee, continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central to Peggie’s most recent claim is that she felt her union representative, Stuart Fraser, should have provided…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-782346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782346","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=782346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}