Akhlaq Choudhury QC was a barrister specialising in commercial, employment, procurement, information and public law. He was appointed a Deputy High Court judge in 2016 and a High Court judge in 2017.
The Centre for Global Development is responding to Maya's Appeal. They are hoping that the original Judgment will be upheld.
Their President is Masood Ahmed.He joined the Centre in January 2017 following a 35-year career driving economic development policy initiatives.
Jane Russell from Essex Court Chambers will be representing CGD today in the Employment Appeal Tribunal.CGD will be referred to as the "Respondents" to the Appeal during the Hearing.
Ben Cooper QC will be representing Maya Forstater.
She will be referred to as the "Appellant" during the Hearing today.
Karon Monaghan QC will appear for the Equalities & Human Rights Commission, intervening in support of Maya Forstater’s appeal.
Aileen McColgan will appear for Index on Censorship, intervening in support of Maya Forstater’s appeal.
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In an Insta post, UN Women claims that “anti-rights movements” – its deceptive label for sex-based rights campaigners – are on the rise
UN Women claims campaigners are putting “the lives of LGBTIQ+ people at risk” – a dangerous and irresponsible statement that has been refuted time after time
Show your support for the brave journalists who covered the subject before Cass made it less risky to do so, and the editors who stood up against ideological capture
- Promote human rights where they relate to biological sex
- Advance education about sex and the law
- Promote the sound administration of the law in relation to sex and equality in the law.
On Monday, I went to an event at University College London, together with Shelley Charlesworth from Transgender Trend. Professor Davina Cooper was presenting on the findings of the Future of Legal Gender research project…
…which received £750,000 in public funding from the Economic and Social Research Council.
Cooper talked about how the project had set out with big ambitions to influence government policy to “decertify” sex and gender, but by the time it ended she was framing it somewhat despondently in terms of envisioning “utopias”.