We at @GoodLawProject are taking advice from several leading QCs in relation to yesterday's decision of the High Court which we believe to be legally, scientifically and morally flawed.
We have identified two separate legal interventions which we expect to make to secure that the international scientific consensus that exists around the treatment of trans young people is applied in the United Kingdom.
We will make announcements in relation to those actions as soon as we sensibly can. We are acting with the benefit of advice from the leading public and healthcare lawyers in the United Kingdom.
We will publish advice shortly from a Queen's Counsel on whether loving parents who access care for their gender incongruent children in line with accepted international treatment norms are at risk of having their children taken into care following yesterday's decision.
We will not be making any media comment. All announcements will be made here or via the @GoodLawProject website. What we can do to protect trans young people from institutional transphobia we will do.
If you would like to support our efforts, we have now reopened the crowdfunding page which we closed whilst we processed yesterday's judgment. #TransRightsAreHumanRights crowdjustice.com/case/transgend…

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4 Dec
There is powerful evidence from around the world that access to trans affirming health care is closely correlated with reduced suicide risk. Here is, eg, Canada. mentalhealthcommission.ca/English/media/… Image
Here is an extract from a similar paper published by Public Health England and the Royal College of Nursing. Note the first "protective factor". gov.uk/government/pub… Image
Looking at these statistics, you would expect the decision of the High Court this week - at which it refused to hear from a single trans person or charity representing them - and which denied healthcare to trans young people would lead to increased numbers of suicides.
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3 Dec
So a quick update on the procurement case management hearing today.

We already had 'permission' on 2/5 grounds in Pestfix and Clandeboye and 3/5 grounds in Ayanda (having permission means that you can argue a case at the full hearing).
Overall I would say (and I'm not in the business of overselling litigation or prospects) we had a slightly disappointing day. We were given permission to bring an extra ground in Pestfix and Clandeboye.
In P and C we got permission on an extra ground - that the contracts were irrational - because the Court was concerned by what the VIP lane meant for the fairness of the procurement process. This, importantly, means there will be some proper judicial scrutiny of the VIP lane.
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3 Dec
The procurement hearing presently taking place in the High Court is not the only @GoodLawProject hearing today. We also have a hearing in relation to an incredibly important environmental matter.
EU law recognises something called the Precautionary Principle: “where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.”
That definition comes from the Earth Summit’s Rio Declaration of 1992. It is part of EU law but - at least this is the Government's position - it is not part of our domestic law.
Read 8 tweets
3 Dec
The High Court gave us 'permission' to bring some of our judicial review arguments in relation to the Government's odd PPE contracts. We are today asking again for permission to bring the others. You can read our (remarkable) Skeleton and Statement here. goodlawproject.org/update/were-in…
We chose these three contracts (Clandeboye/Ayanda/Pestfix) in June/July when we had much less understanding than we do now about what was going on. Once you appreciate that fact, what we have already uncovered (before disclosure) about those three is all the more remarkable.
Let me just focus on one aspect of those contracts: the quality of the product supplied by those companies (respectively, a confectionery wholesaler, a 'family office', and a pest control specialist).
Read 11 tweets
2 Dec
In a 2004 decision (Re Alex) the Family Court of Australia found that the court's permission was required for puberty blockers. It took until 2013 for that decision to be reversed in Re Jamie.
The Court in Re Jamie held that Stage 1 treatment could be described as therapeutic. Because Stage 1 was reversible, none of the concerns of the High Court of Australia about risk of the wrong decision, or grave consequences, arose.
There's a long discussion of the journey back from Re Alex in this extraordinary presentation from Justice Steven Strickland, Judge of the Appeal Division and Chair, Law Reform Committee, Family Court of Australia. familycourt.gov.au/wps/wcm/connec…
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1 Dec
Just a reminder that, although Government is now running furiously from the description of the "VIP" channel, this is the language it used itself.
And a further reminder that, although the NAO suggests "VIPs" were merely those *introduced* by (mostly) Ministers, this leaked document suggests they were also *processed* on a different track.
See our blog post citing leaked documents - widely ignored by the press - which predated the NAO Report by a number of weeks. goodlawproject.org/news/special-p…
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