‘The partner of a transgender woman found dead in an all male prison after telling friends she would kill herself if she was sent there has said he contacted prison authorities to warn them about her vulnerability.’
The Guardian, 20th November 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A petition calling for a transgender woman to serve a prison sentence in a female prison has attracted more than 10,000 signatures in under 24 hours.’
BBC News, 27th October 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The legislative backdrop to both cases featured the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) and the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA 2004), the latter being legislation enacted by Parliament to enable persons who have changed gender to have their acquired gender recognised and certified. GRA 2004 was Parliament’s response to the decision in Strasbourg in Goodwin v United Kingdom (Application No. 65723/01) [2008] All ER (D) 113 (Jan), in which it was held that the UK had failed to comply with its positive obligation to ensure the right of a transsexual to respect for her private life, in particular by affording legal recognition to her acquired gender.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 26th May 2015
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘Clive Anderson and a panel of senior legal experts discuss the apparent failure of the 1970 Equal Pay Act to bridge the gender pay gap.’
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BBC Unreliable Evidence, 13th May 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Prosecutors halt case against doctors filmed in Telegraph investigation over ‘public interest’ considerations.’
Daily Telegraph, 13th March 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘MPs have defeated a cross-party bid to clarify in law that abortion on the grounds of gender alone is illegal in the UK.’
BBC News, 24th February 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Women’s rights campaigners are calling on MPs to vote against criminalising abortion on grounds of a child’s gender because it could drive the problem underground.’
The Independent, 18th February 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Doctor exposed in Telegraph investigation served summons to face conspiracy allegation in landmark sex-selective abortion private prosecution.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th November 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Papers submitted to court in bid to trigger rare private prosecution of doctors exposed in The Telegraph’s undercover abortion investigation.’
Daily Telegraph, 24th October 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
MB v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2014] EWCA Civ 1112; [2014] WLR (D) 355
‘The effect of section 4 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004, which required that a subsisting marriage be annulled prior to the issue of a full gender recognition certificate, and thus to being treated as a woman for pension purposes, did not contravene the principle of equal treatment and was accordingly not discriminatory.’
WLR Daily, 31st July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A transgender person’s claim to be entitled to receive the female state pension at the age of 60 has been rejected by the appeal court.’
The Guardian, 31st July 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Same-sex couples will be able to convert their civil partnerships to marriages from December this year, the culture secretary has said.’
The Guardian, 26th June 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
In a report published today the Law Commission recommends reforms to ensure that the criminal justice system is able to make a stronger and more coherent response to hate crime.
Law Commission, 28th May 2014
Source: www.lawcommission.justice.gov.uk
‘Ministers to issue new guidance making clear that sex-selective abortion and pre-signing abortion forms is illegal.’
Daily Telegraph, 22nd May 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
International Development (Gender Equality) Act 2014 published
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
‘Until the discovery of telepathy (or perhaps some sort of machine equivalent), we must rely on language as our way of conveying unambiguous meaning to each other. That need is particularly pressing when it comes to the law. So, it was refreshing to see a discussion on language in the House of Lords recently, when Lord Scott invited a debate on personal pronouns and their semantic infelicities in Acts and statutory instruments. Or, in plain English, when is a “he” also a “she” as a matter of law? This may not sound particularly confusing, but, because judges have always had to interpret the law as written (unless there is a compelling reason not to), it is important to remove as much ambiguity from the finished Act as possible.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 14th January 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘Controversy has been sparked by the guidance issued by Universities UK entitled External speakers in higher education institutions on the question of gender segregation in university talks.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 13th December 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“There has been a recent storm over the DPP’s decision not to prosecute two doctors in relation to their referral of two women for abortion. The cases were widely represented as cases of abortion on grounds of gender. They came to light in the course of an undercover investigation by the Telegraph of practice in English abortion clinics.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 15th October 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“It would be impossible to prove that two doctors authorised abortions solely on the basis of the baby’s gender, the director of public prosecutions has said in an explanation of why charges were not brought against them.”
The Guardian, 7th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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