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Equality Commission in Northern Ireland claims it needs clarity from High Court before implementing Supreme Court Judgement

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UtopiaPlanitia · 27/06/2025 14:46

The title of the thread says it all.

The ECNI claims that existing sex discrimination law from earlier decades doesn’t define what male and female mean in NI, and that the Good Friday Agreement plus Windsor Framework might also have unforeseen implications on implementing the UK Supreme Court judgment in NI so it is necessary to ask the High Court for a determination.

https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/further-uncertainty-over-supreme-court-ruling-as-equality-watchdog-stalls-guidance-over-windsor-framework-5197905

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TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 27/06/2025 18:22

Why does it need clarification from a lower court, the SC is the highest court in the land, the judgement also came with an 88 page report, instead of whining why don't the earn their pay and read the judgement.

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UtopiaPlanitia · 27/06/2025 17:51

I completely agree @AlexandraLeaving the ECNI are not fooling anybody with this transparently bad faith argument that NI legislation might have a different interpretation & application than equivalent legislation from GB

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AlexandraLeaving · 27/06/2025 17:41

What utter fucking bollocks, to use a technical constitutional term.

There is no doubt that the 1976 Order had the same meanings as the 1975 Act in GB. No doubt at all.

There is no doubt that the 1998 Act was written with the same understanding of those words.

The Windsor Framework provision about “no diminution of rights” referred to rights that existed pre-Brexit, and the 1976 Order was then (& still is) the relevant law on sex discrimination.

It is true that what are often referred to as “the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland” require careful consideration in relation to politics, religion, geography, history etc. But not biological reality.

I am beyond cross to read that.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 27/06/2025 16:26

Good grief - to know that there are so many adults still whining that they still don't know what a woman is while being in receipt of tax payer funded salaries that should come with an expectation of a basic level of intelligence and competence.

Utter clowns.

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UtopiaPlanitia · 27/06/2025 16:13

Indeed!

To use a favourite Belfast phrase regarding these stalling tactics we’re seeing employed by various organisations: they’re rippin’ the pish outta it.

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TheOtherRaven · 27/06/2025 16:04

My God. How very very very difficult and complicated it's become to let women have single sex spaces.

All this bullshit and it's purely because men, as a sex class, have the power and clout to make this as difficult as possible, so that other men can use those women without boundaries. It's binary. It's a sex based binary of power in action.

'No one's ever said what sex is'.....

Give me fucking strength.

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