Lawyers for a Christian school worker have asked a member of the panel at her appeal hearing to recuse himself because of concerns about “bias”.
A two-day hearing is underway in London in the appeal of Kristie Higgs against a previous judgment which ruled that the school she worked at previously was justified in sacking her for gross misconduct over two Facebook posts.
The Facebook posts, shared on her private account in 2019, expressed opposition to the introduction of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and raised concerns about transgenderism being prompted in her son’s Church of England primary school.
The previous judgment ruled that her posts could have been perceived as…
