A WOMAN has been permitted to pursue damages against Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course over allegations that staff breached data protection laws by filming her.
Rohan Beyts has raised the court action against Trump International after staff allegedly filmed her urinating on the Menie Estate course in April.
She was initially reported to the procurator fiscal but was told no action would be taken. A hearing in the small claims court at Edinburgh Sheriff Court took place yesterday.
Ms Beyts’s lawyer, solicitor advocate Mike Dailly, said attempts by the US President-elect’s course to have the case dismissed were unsuccessful.
A three-day civil hearing will now take place in early April.
Mr Dailly said: “The Trump Organisation tried to get the case dismissed today and failed. 
“We now have a three-day civil trial called a proof over three days in April next year.
“In that civil trial the Trump Organisation will have to present witnesses and evidence.”
Ms Beyts, a retired social worker, told the BBC website that she was glad the case was going ahead and the date set down for the case in April marked about one year since the incident.
: “When I discovered men had been filming me I felt really uncomfortable - mortified.

“It’s ironic they said my act was disgusting but you hear about Donald Trump’s claims about women. I know which I think are disgusting.”
Edinburgh Sheriff Court confirmed the case of 
Carol Rohan Beyts against Trump International had been continued until April 2017.
A spokeswoman for Trump International said: “Our position on Rohan Beyts’s claim remains unchanged and the matter is now in the hands of our lawyers.”