An Israeli professor who was dropped as a speaker by the Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust said this week that he wanted a public acknowledgment of the discrimination against him.
Professor Moty Cristal, an expert on negotiations and conflict resolution, was formally disinvited from a seminar in Manchester in May with less than a week’s notice.
Unison, the partner organisation for the seminar, told the NHS Trust that its members would not take part in anything run by the Israeli academic. He had been due to give a master class on conflict resolution in health-care.
On Wednesday, Prof Cristal flew to London to talk to lawyers about taking legal action. It now looks likely that the case against Manchester NHS Trust and Unison will be heard in a county court.