Legal systems • Page 2
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The Scottish Government has offered to meet us
We have received a letter from the Scottish Government’s Director of People, Dr Nicola Richards, offering a meeting. Richards...
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Duty bearers under the Equality Act must act now
Ben Cooper KC of Old Square Chambers (who represented Sex Matters in our intervention in For Women Scotland) has...
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Ben Cooper KC explains the implications of FWS
For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers: why the Supreme Court’s judgment does not remove, diminish or breach the...
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The Scottish Government has stopped hiding behind the EHRC: now it must act
The Scottish Government has stopped hiding behind the claim that it needs to wait for the Equality and Human...
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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 for...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...