Employment, discrimination and whistleblowing lawyer.
Apr 27 • 28 tweets • 8 min read
The assertion is being made that the Supreme Court judgment in FWS places the UK in breach of its ECHR obligations, as laid out in the case of Goodwin v UK. A court case is apparently being prepared on this basis.
I think this may be seriously misguided.
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The assertions regarding Goodwin are varied, but are broadly that Goodwin is authority for the proposition that, in law, Trans Women Are Women / Trans Men are Men, that they must be treated as such at all times.
Apr 18 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Another of the false assertions made of the @ForWomenScot judgment is that the Supreme Court “refused to hear from trans people.”
It did no such thing.
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The Court declined to hear from two trans individuals (in an application for which Maugham’s Good Law Project had crowdfunded £31,874 less the 10% from all GLP crowdfunding which is retained by GLP for its own expenses).
(h/t @wonkypolicywonk)
Mar 29 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Janice Turner’s article is spot on. Share token:
Couple of other things (🧵)thetimes.com/article/5ebb0a…
This 2024 paper by Ruth Birchall and @jophoenix1 demonstrates the anomalously high success rate of gender-critical claimants. There is no other category of Equality Act claims where this is the case.
This is wrong. Although headed “The Law”, no actual law is cited. It is perfectly lawful (and in some circumstances a legal requirement) to “issue guidance to public bodies instructing them to always operate single sex spaces on the basis of sex registered at birth”.
Jun 30, 2023 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Maya Forstater’s win is great news, but there’s still some way to go. Here is a thread of cases (mine and not mine) which still need funding…
There are three cases against the Green Party, with Shahra Ali’s up first, later this summer and then Emma Bateman’s. Dawn Furness’s case will be the last to be heard. The details of it are shocking (she alleges being assaulted twice). This is a big one:
