{"id":395983,"date":"2025-09-04T01:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395983\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:19:23","slug":"sandie-peggie-raises-further-legal-action-against-nhs-fife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395983\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandie Peggie raises further legal action against NHS Fife"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sandie Peggie is claiming harassment and victimisation under the Equality Act<\/p>\n

A nurse who was suspended after an exchange with a trans doctor in a female changing room has raised a new legal claim against NHS Fife.<\/p>\n

Sandie Peggie’s action is separate from her ongoing case with the health board<\/a> and Dr Beth Upton, whom she took to an employment tribunal. <\/p>\n

She alleged harassment and victimisation under the Equality Act 2010 relating to her gender critical beliefs.<\/p>\n

Ms Peggie’s fresh claim arises from three senior staff opposing a decision by another manager to lift her suspension in March last year.<\/p>\n

Ms Peggie’s legal team said this only became known to Ms Peggie during evidence given as part of the tribunal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They said further claims of harassment and victimisation will be made against both the health board and specific employees over the coming months. <\/p>\n

NHS Fife have denied their treatment of the nurse was unlawful.<\/p>\n

Ms Peggie and Dr Upton had a row on Christmas Eve 2023<\/a> over the use of female changing facilities at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy.<\/p>\n

The dispute led to Ms Peggie being suspended and then taking NHS Fife to a tribunal.<\/p>\n

It began in February and heard from more than 15 witnesses, including Dr Kate Searle<\/a>, Dr Maggie Currer and Esther Davidson – the three senior managers that Ms Peggie has now raised legal proceedings against. <\/p>\n

Timeline of the Sandie Peggie tribunal<\/p>\n

Margaret Gribbon, the solicitor for Ms Peggie, said the latest legal action – covering NHS Fife and the three managers – was raised on 6 August.<\/p>\n

She added: “All four respondents’ legal defences to the claim are expected to be received within the next fortnight. <\/p>\n

“The claim arises from these senior managers’ opposition to the decision by another FHB manager in March 2024 to lift Sandie’s suspension. <\/p>\n

“Sandie only became aware of this matter when the suspension review manager gave evidence at her tribunal hearing in July.”<\/p>\n

Ms Gribbon stated that the claim was one of alleged harassment and victimisation under the Equality Act 2010.<\/p>\n

‘Irresponsible and unsafe’<\/p>\n

She also said further claims relating to Ms Peggie undergoing a disciplinary hearing and a controversial media statement released by NHS Fife in July would follow.<\/p>\n

On 18 July the health board published the four-page document<\/a> while evidence was being heard in the tribunal.<\/p>\n

It claimed that the employment tribunal had resulted in threats of physical harm and sexual violence against NHS staff.<\/p>\n

Scotland’s information commissioner David Hamilton later criticised NHS Fife for the statement, and the fact the document set out in detail the costs of the tribunal.<\/p>\n

Ms Peggie’s junior counsel Charlotte Elves said at the time that the statement caused “some concern” and was “irresponsible and potentially unsafe”.<\/p>\n

Ms Gribbon said the health board had been asked to provide the names of employees who authorised the media statement, but had not done so.<\/p>\n

She said that Ms Peggie was also considering taking legal action against the individuals who approved its release. <\/p>\n

NHS Fife confirmed that a second employment tribunal claim had been raised against the organisation and members of its staff.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson added: “NHS Fife will provide a formal response to this additional claim in due course.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Sandie Peggie is claiming harassment and victimisation under the Equality Act A nurse who was suspended after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-395983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115143400887810025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}