Orwin v East Riding of Yorkshire Council

(Analysis)

In this post I offer some thoughts and analysis of the decision in Orwin v East Riding of Yorkshire Council. If you’d like to read a summary of the decision, it’s available here.

Overall, I think this case was correctly decided and I think it offers us some important analysis of the law relating to the manifestation of belief in the context of the gender wars. It tells us more about how one should (and should not) go about raising concerns about internal employment policy, and the scope of protection afforded to the expression of gender critical belief in the workplace. This will be particularly relevant in relation to preferred pronoun usage in the workplace.