Overview

• The tribunal challenges NHS Fife’s decision to let Dr Beth Upton, a transgender woman, use female-only changing facilities after nurse Sandie Peggie complained
• Scotland’s information commissioner ruled that the board must release its £220,465.93 defence bill following inadequate freedom of information responses
• The board will reclaim most of the costs through the CNORIS indemnity scheme, which limits its own liability to £25,000
• A judge adjourned the original ten-day hearing and added 11 days of proceedings after finding NHS Fife had failed to disclose key documents
• An April Supreme Court ruling that a ‘woman’ is defined by biological sex under the Equality Act now frames legal arguments over single-sex workplace spaces