Today’s Supreme Court’s judgment in Shvidler v Foreign Secretary addresses key issues about the role of courts generally and appellate courts in particular when it comes to applying the propo…

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Today’s Supreme Court’s judgment in Shvidler v Foreign Secretary addresses key issues about the role of courts generally and appellate courts in particular when it comes to applying the propo…

Sam Fowles in the Guardian has a useful overview here of what the decision in the UK Supreme Court was and, as importantly, was not. Ironically, for anyone who thought this would bring supposed clarity: The court’s decision means there are now multiple legal classes of “woman” and “man”, each of which invites a different interpretation of the act: cis women, trans women with a GRC, trans women without a GRC, cis men, trans men with a GRC, trans men without a GRC.

The judges had to interpret the law as set down by parliament. But it must be remembered this is not an abstract debate; it concerns real people, says barrister Sam Fowles

The ICDR has provided members of the Senedd with a briefing for its debate on proposals for new laws to crack down on political lying.

The Senedd Standards Committee has published a report recommending that politicians who deliberately lie to the public should face criminal penalties. The report proposes amending […]

But calls for deception by Senedd members to be made a criminal offence are rejected.

The Institute for Constitutional and Democratic Research has set out a model for the Welsh Government’s proposed law to penalise politicians who deliberately mislead the public. The ICDR’s white Paper...

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Labour wants an easy relationship with the incoming US administration, but the party and the country will suffer if Starmer fails to hold Trump to acc...

Labour wants an easy relationship with the incoming US administration, but the party and the country will suffer if Starmer fails to hold Trump to acc...

Labour wants an easy relationship with the incoming US administration, but the party and the country will suffer if Starmer fails to hold Trump to acc...

Today, Dr Sam Fowles appears in the Supreme Court (led by Christopher Knight of 11 Kings Bench Walk) in a case likely to have a significant impact […]

Labour wants an easy relationship with the incoming US administration, but the party and the country will suffer if Starmer fails to hold Trump to acc...

Labour wants an easy relationship with the incoming US administration, but the party and the country will suffer if Starmer fails to hold Trump to acc...