📢📢 Judgement Day!📢📢
FWS wins in the Outer House of the Court of Session
For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers
Judicial Review of the Scottish Prison Service Policy for the Management of Transgender People in Custody Operational Guidance.
https://t.co/j5zXBiCqz4
I'm honoured to have acted for @BluskyeAllison in the first successful case of gender critical belief discrimination brought against a service provider ⬇️
A detailed look at what the Supreme Court did and did not decide in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers this week. The ruling was unequivocal and the judgment should be read in full, but this is a summary and analysis that I hope will be useful:
https://t.co/aELsNw2UHz
PDF of the judgment containing the court’s reasoning, summarised at paragraph 265. A very important decision on the limits of the “for all purposes” legal fiction created by s9 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004, pursued by the tenacity of @ForWomenScot
https://t.co/d5fjp5Itmt
BREAKING: @DCMS@SciTechgovuk agree to pay £116k to whistleblowing civil servant.
Department heads commits to return to impartiality and to develop a new policy on gender reassignment which balances rights
So good of MBM to do this! Once again, they are working round the clock to untangle this law and to keep women safe.
@HumzaYousaf should be ashamed that women are having to fill the gap deliberately left by @scotgov#HumzasHateCrime#HateCrimeActScotland
BBC: Greens hit with £90,000 legal bill after discrimination case
The Green Party of England and Wales have been ordered to pay £90,000 to cover the costs of their former deputy leader, who won a discrimination case against them. https://t.co/bYBj8w2oZm
Green Party spokesperson sacked on account of his gender critical views wins his claim for unlawful discrimination. I hope all political parties including my own will pay attention to this judgment & reform their procedures & practices. Thank you Shahrar Ali!
A woman was subject to ‘a heresy hunt’ that was ‘reminiscent of the work of Franz Kafka’ for believing that sex is important for rape victims seeking support at a rape crisis centre. My latest for @TheCriticMag explains the case and the judgment:
https://t.co/a0K3EiV8Cc
V important legal victory for Roz Adams against Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. Emp tribunal found ERCC discriminated against her on basis of her gender critical belief & constructively dismissed her. ET on investigation against her: "reminiscent of the works of Franz Kafka." 🔥
"Forstater, Bailey, Fahmy, Meade & Phoenix make clear employers cannot treat employees less favourably because they hold & manifest gender critical beliefs & must protect them from harassment from colleagues."
Excellent @emplawyers@blackstone article https://t.co/yTSsaO6JVN
Rachel Meade has won her claim of harassment related to "gender-critical" belief against both her employer @CityWestminster and her regulator @SocialWorkEng. Congratulations to Rachel and her legal team @_ShaziaKhan and Naomi Cunningham of @outertemple.
https://t.co/o8rq3pgYak
Jo Phoenix employment tribunal case decision accessible from here
https://t.co/8JqfcOCepI
Worth employers (including particularly universities) reflecting again on the atmosphere created within them