Tag: Judicial Review
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Gender Representation on Public Boards (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill
This is our short submission to the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee’s call for views on the amendment to the GRPB Act to bring it...
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Reclaiming Motion on the Statutory Guidance for the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act – Grounds of Appeal and Note of Argument
Ahead of our reclaiming motion (appeal) in the Court of Session Inner House on Wednesday 4th October we are now able to publish our written submissions to the court....
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UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women: a case study in the Scottish courts
The following report examines how the Scottish Government performed in its commitment to the incorporation of the United Nations CEDAW treaty by examining our first judicial review where we...
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Judicial review appeal
Last year we brought a judicial review on changes the Scottish Government had made to the statutory guidance for the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act which meant males who...
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Briefing: Westminster debate on the definition of “sex” in the Equality Act
This is our Parliamentary briefing for the debate on the definition of “sex” in the Equality Act, Westminster Hall, 12th June 2023. It’s also available to view/download as a...
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Judicial Review 2 – Substantive Hearing
BackgroundEarlier this year we won a judicial review at appeal which ruled that the definition of “woman” in the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 was unlawful...
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Judicial Review Finances
Our successful judicial review on the redefinition of “woman” in the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 has now concluded and all finances settled. The final figures...
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Impact of Second Judicial Review
This is the first of two letters we sent to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee on 30 August 2022. The second one on comments made by...
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Judicial Review 2
Following our successful appeal on the redefinition of ‘woman’ in the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018, the Inner House declared on 22 March 2022 that: While...
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Justice Through the Looking Glass
Written by Susan Smith. A shorter version was published in The Critic. Which, or who, is to be master and whether you can make words mean different things, has...