This thread is pretty amazing. People really ought to spend the 20-30 mins it takes to read the tribunal judgement.
Comments like "some doris sprog-catcher" are terrible. She was OC of the RCDM Clinical Unit and then Standing Joint Commander (Medicine), putting her in charge of the military part of the QE University Hospital in Birmingham and Headley Court, which is hardly a small role.
In a 2-minute scan through the tribunal, you can see that she was consistently written up as a remarkable, A- graded, high achiever with "high" recommends for promotion and comments like "ready for 1* NOW" and "her excellent leadership and management qualities and her Role 4 expertise make her a must for the Joint Cmd DMG post" on her reports.
Then you get to the bit where an AVM picks another candidate because he was a doctor and was in his own command chain, based on no more evidence than the job titles of the 3 candidates and his own knowledge of one of them.
Then he starts saying that doctors are better suited to a role that no longer requires direct medical contact with any patients, and when asked why, or asked why strategic medical positions within the Army are held by nurses and the Surgeon General of the US Army is a female nurse but the RAF won't accept that, he has no answers.
Those saying that people with less seniority than them have been promoted ahead of them in the past have a point; except where the specific Air Rank Promotions Board that she was boarded on stated in its TORs that "when a choice has to be made between 2 officers of broadly equal merit the older, or more senior should be preferred."
It showed up a lot of interesting flaws in the promotions and appointments system. She was evidently an excellent officer, completely in the right, and thoroughly deserves her compensation.
All of us should be wary of the comments made about how the MOD was evasive, obstructive, and straight out refused to find or provide certain bits of information.