On March 13 2024 I made a complaint to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office about Master McCloud, a serving judge who has been engaging publicly and inappropriately in debates on sex and gender.
Since I submitted the complaint:
🧑⚖️ McCloud continues to be serving judge.
🙈There has been no disciplinary statement published by JCIO.
🤯 McCloud launched a crowdfund together with the Good Law Project
🙄McCloud continues to post campaigning messages
McCloud is now posting statements with the disclaimer "non-judicial statement under ECHR Art 10".
Are other judges allowed to do this, or is it a special rule?
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- She posted a list of the 9 protected characteristics from the Equality Act and highlighting that gender expression, gender identity and gender are not PCs.
She shared a link to "my body is me" by @RooneyRach
I went to this yesterday, with my pal @charlesworth102
Professor Cooper was presenting on the findings of the £0.75m @ESRC funding research project.
We were underwhelmed.
As @_JVigo wrote at the start of the project in 2019 it did not define what it meant by gender or sex and consistently demonstrated a lack of understanding of bodies.
In 2024 that hadn't changed. Prof Cooper slipped between "gender" and "sex" throughout
The project hadn't delivered on its ambitious goals of offering policy and regulatory recommendations and influencing govt departments and shadow ministers.
Hey @hopenothate @lowles_nick remember in 2022 when you you smeared LGB Alliance in your "state of hate" report. HereSNP MP & Chair of the Human Rights Joint Committee praiss LGB alliance & talks about how branding opponents hate groups shuts down debate.
Judge said "The effect of police turning up..because of his political opinions must not be underestimated. To do so wld be to undervalue a cardinal democratic freedom. In this country we have never had a Cheka, Gestapo or Stasi. We have never lived in an Orwellian society."
MCloud was appointed "as the youngest and only second female ‘Master’" to be appointed to the Queen’s Bench division of the High Court in 2010.
McCloud was also on the Committee that writes the Equal Treatment Bench Book
In 2020 Mccloud spoke at this event in aid of Stonewall.
"Ensuring that all voices of minority/oppressed groups are heard" sounds nice, but it often means shutting down dissent as harassment.
In any case judges might have all kinds of characteristics but presenting themselves as being part of a community with responsibilities to that community undermines confidence in impartiality.
I complained about this but it was rejected as out of time.