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Hampstead Ponds update today

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WallaceinAnderland · 04/06/2026 19:25

I'm not sure that this is in line with the law.

They need to label all 3 ponds as mixed sex.

https://news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/hampstead-heaths-bathing-ponds-to-remain-trans-inclusive-spaces-as-city-corporation-agrees-future-access-policy/

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Mmmnotsure · Yesterday 20:44

Ellie Fawcett, solicitor at Leigh Day said:
“Too often, issues impacting trans people are debated without hearing from the people most affected.

Absolutely true.

Over the past decades, issues impacting trans people have indeed been debated without hearing from the people most affected. That would be women. Millions of them.

A Court, including a judicial review is not a forum for “debate”. The purpose of a COURT OF LAW. Is to determine what the law is, where there is a dispute, about the meaning of a specific piece of legislation and/or the application of it.

A judicial review, is in a High Court specifically for complaining about Public bodies, who may have misapplied duties under a piece of legislation, ignored them all or in part, or fettered a discretion, provided for.

A person or a legal person, as in an organisation, may apply to intervene as long as they have sufficient standing, a legal point to make contrary to the applicants claim, or to agree and add a specific issue of a legal concern to them.

A person or persons, cannot apply to be an intervenor with no legal point to make.

HTH

OpheliaWitchoftheWoods · Today 00:43

Oh for pete's sake we never STOP hearing from people with gender identities and how issues affect them. No one else, particularly the WOMEN affected, are never permitted a voice at all!

This is still based on the idea that a couple of people emote and do sad anecdotes, and get whatever they want. That isn't how the law works - and in fact it's what the law is for. To protect the interests of all equally, and prevent loud, demanding, sharp elbowed groups trampling over everyone else and taking more than their share.

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