KB-2024-002315 - [2025] EWHC 1782 (KB)

The defendant is an independent trade union and voluntary professional association which represents doctors and medical students from all branches of medicine all over the United Kingdom. In July 2023, it had 190,366 members.

The claimant is a junior doctor (now known as a ‘resident doctor’) in paediatric medicine based in North-East England. He was a member of the defendant from 2015 until 2024. From October 2022, he was the elected Deputy Chair of the defendant’s Northern Regional Junior Doctors Committee. In November 2022, he was elected Deputy Co-Chair for Professional Issues on that committee. He was thereby (with 11 others) a member of the executive committee of that committee. The claimant says that his “personal politics have always been socialist, anti-fascist, and anti-racist”. He created an account on twitter on 20 July 2011. He has posted 4,493 tweets.