Legal systems • Page 2
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Revised guidance for Transgender Inclusion in Domestic Sport – introduction to legal considerations
Guidance by Harper Macleod LLP for the UK Home Nations Sports Councils on the considerations underpinning its Guidance...
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The Scottish Government must be made to follow the law
Sex Matters has sent a letter before action to the Scottish Government, putting it on notice that we will...
18th June 2025
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Fixing the legal mess – Maya Forstater in conversation with Helen Joyce
Maya traces the story of sex and the law, from early experimental surgeries to the legal cases that quietly...
16th June 2025
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Police forces withdraw unlawful search policies
Six police forces have now folded to our legal challenge and will not be defending their unlawful policies in...
16th June 2025
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What Law & Disorder got wrong about the FWS judgment
Three legal luminaries discussed the For Women Scotland judgment on their Law & Disorder podcast, writes Sex Matters chair...
12th June 2025
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Equal Treatment Bench Book – May 2025 update
A revision of the July 2024 edition.
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Analysis of changes to the Equal Treatment Bench Book
Taken from a Twitter thread by Legal Feminist.
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Changing rooms?
Fiona McAnena and Anya Palmer for the New Law Journal assert that the Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland,...
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Toilets and human rights
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has made clear an important implication of the Supreme Court ruling: when...
22nd May 2025
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Article 8 and toilets – and other separate-sex facilities
An illustrated explanation of how human rights intersect with the Equality Act 2010 and the April 2025 Supreme Court...
22nd May 2025
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Poll shows public support for the Supreme Court decision
On 16th April the UK Supreme Court issued a ruling about the definition of a woman and sex in...
20th May 2025
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YouGov / Sex Matters survey results, May 2025
Results of fieldwork on 8th–9th May 2025.
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The truth about toilets
Following the Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of the protected characteristic of sex, everyone wants to talk about...
24th April 2025
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Letter to the Prime Minister
We wrote to Keir Starmer MP after the Supreme Court judgment on 16th April 2025 to ask him to...
22nd April 2025
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What does the For Women Scotland judgment mean in practice?
The judgment handed down yesterday by the Supreme Court returns the Equality Act to clarity. Many organisations have fallen...
17th April 2025
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For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers
before Lord Reed, President Lord Hodge, Deputy President Lord Lloyd-Jones Lady Rose Lady Simler
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For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers – case summary, judgment, and videos of the hearings
Is a person with a full gender-recognition certificate which recognises that their gender is female, a “woman” for the...
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IT’S A WIN!
We are delighted that the Supreme Court has accepted the arguments of For Women Scotland and rejected the position...
16th April 2025
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For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers – press summary of the judgment
Four-page press summary of the judgment given on 16th April 2025 on whether a person with a full gender-recognition...
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Submissions for the preliminary hearing on 15th April 2025 of Sandie Peggie v Fife Health Board and Dr Beth Upton
Submissions from Sex Matters, For Women Scotland, Murray Blackburn Mackenzie and Tribunal Tweets on the respondents' application to restrict...
15th April 2025
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Judicial review of police search policy is waiting for the Supreme Court judgment
Sex matters in many different laws and policies, not just in the Equality Act. The British Transport Police allows...
15th April 2025
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Gender-recognition certificates (GRCs): the facts
As background information for the Supreme Court judgment on For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers on 16th April...
14th April 2025
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UK Supreme Court case: where could the decision leave the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill?
Independent policy analysis collective Murray Blackburn Mackenzie sets out why responsibility for the next move on the Gender Recognition...
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Sex in the Supreme Court – a brief overview
A legal analysis of the For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers case by academic and writer Michael Foran...
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For Women Scotland judgment to be handed down next week
The judgment in the matter of For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers will be handed down in...
10th April 2025
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Letter to Nick Goodwin, Chief Executive of His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service
Letter sharing observations about recent employment tribunals using the Cloud Video Platform system, from MurrayBlackburnMackenzie, For Women Scotland, Sex...
9th April 2025
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The Equality Act: 15 years old today!
On 8th April 2010, the Equality Act received royal assent. The landmark new law drew together legislation addressing race...
8th April 2025
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Met Police tribunal anonymity bid rejected
An employment tribunal in South London has rejected the Metropolitan Police’s application to anonymise the identity of a witness...
11th March 2025
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The Scottish government should take action to protect women at work
Sex Matters, along with Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, For Women Scotland and Fair Play For Women, today wrote to Neil...
18th February 2025
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Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Scotland
Sex Matters, Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, For Women Scotland and Fair Play For Women wrote to Neil Gray MSP urging...
18th February 2025
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Reviewing the UK’s human rights framework
The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) will be reviewing the UK’s approach to human rights...
11th February 2025
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Input to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
Our January 2025 submission to the UN's Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as it considers the response...
11th February 2025