Seyi Omooba ordered to pay £300k costs after unsuccessful tribunal

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Following an unsuccessful tribunal claim, Seyi Omooba has been ordered to pay the full costs incurred by Curve and Global Artists, which is potentially in excess of £300,000.

Curve chief executive Chris Stafford and artistic director Nikolai Foster said that they felt the two-year legal battle "lacked any merit from the outset" and therefore welcomed this news.

It is thought that the tribunal was part of a wider campaign initiated by Christian Concern who backed Omooba during the case.

Omooba claimed in a past Facebook post that homosexuality was not "right" and that she did not believe that people could be born gay. Following this, she was dismissed from the Curve production of The Color Purple in 2019 and was successively dropped from her agents,

She brought an employment tribunal case against both parties on grounds of religious discrimination and breach of contract, which was later rejected.

The judgement agreed with arguments that Omooba’s claims had "no reasonable prospects of success.”