Law firm vetting 'transphobic' clients to climb the Stonewall index

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Haven't seen this posted elsewhere:

www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/exclusive-leigh-day-solicitor-claims-firm-vets-clients-transphobia

Comments on the article are interesting.

Yep. Also the linked articles at the bottom of this one, which I don't think I'd seen before!

I didn't think lawyers were allowed to do that!

Does anyone know which case the Law Society Gazette article refers to:

"one victim of violence by a transgender woman has been reprimanded in court for using male pronouns while describing the attack. Finding the defendant guilty, the judge refused the victim compensation, saying that when asked to refer to the defendant as ‘she’, the victim had done so with ‘bad grace’ or continued to use ‘he’."

15 years ago, law firms were falling over themselves to get in with Kids' Company because they were the hot charity du jour. Most of the partners where I worked had no clue about KC, and gave zero fucks about the children involved; but they wanted to be seen to be in with the biggest social trend around, in order to tick the diversity/community representation boxes. The managing partner of my firm used to refer to it as "that Batman woman's charity".

Nothing has changed. Nothing has been learned. Watch them scatter like cockroaches once the light is shined on this mess.

That was Maria MacLachlan yetanother

*yetanotherusernameAgain", it's the Tara Wolf case; TW found guilty, of attacking a woman attending a meeting at Hyde Park.

Thanks for the clarification. I knew of Maria's case but didn't know she had been refused victim compensation.

yetanother: You can read Maria's account of the trial here. It's pretty shocking:

www.peaktrans.org/district-judge-kenneth-grant/

I suppose this company is an example of what the judge in Harry Miller's case would refer to as the Stasi or Gestapo? Checking people's thinking before allowing them access to justice? I wonder what else they do to 'screen' prospective clients?
And these are allegedly intelligent lawyers.

Roll on Friday doing great work. They exposed the Dentons crap as well.

This is the same Leigh-Day of the Al-Swedey Inquiry, hauling squaddies over the coals over made-up allegations of torture by actual terrorists.

(cleared of all wrongdoing, in part because it was ruled they had no reason to assume the use of the word 'bribe' indicated anything dishonest.)

Binterested: the Law Society Gazette reported the Dentons story before Roll on Friday. Here's a link to the Gazette story:

www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/campaigners-for-gender-recognition-law-should-avoid-media/5102234.article

Roll on Friday followed a few days later.

So funny that 4 out of 6 related stories on the roll on Friday link are about a particular ‘lady lawyer’.

Leigh Day - not exactly a stellar firm. But public law experts so a surprising move. Perhaps they just think there is more money to be made by bringing claims for trans people at present.

Roll on Friday comment:

good work ROF

It describes Stonewall as a pressure group.

‘The claim, later disputed by the firm, was made at a seminar on how law firms can climb Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index (WEI), which grades businesses according to the pressure group's LGBT inclusivity criteria’

Surely this is hugely discriminatory and goes against the way in which solicitors should operate.

Roll on Friday is doing some great stuff in this area. There are lots of GC women on there. Which should be unsurprising for a profession based around critical thinking.

Lawyers (and apologies to any on here) and the lowest of creatures. I used to always stand up for lawyers, journalists, mps, etc who would get a bad press just for doing their jobs.

However, law firms (the big boys) are encouraging this crap. As someone I know who works for one if the big firms says ‘if it was fashionable to promote infanticide, and there was money in it, they would’.

So making money, or sometimes just to exercise the law as an academic exercise (or to make a name for themselves). Never mind the mess they make for those of us in the real world.

It was Leigh Day that Madigan contacted to fight the school uniform thing.

It'll become clear how successful this is as a marketing strategy. I think it'll be Ratneresque in the long run.

Didn’t the NHS flashed engage a swanky (expensive) lawyers too?

The funny thing is - whenever I’ve gone to meetings at thread firms for work (as I’ve had to in my old jobs) they’ve all been with very conservative and plummy blokes.

Many of the conservative firms we work with have signed up to the Stonewall pledge. In every case it’s been a man championing the thing on LinkedIn. Gay men, straight men. Stonewall loves them all.

Leigh Day are an extremely controversial firm with form for forcing a CCG to fund dangerous and insanely expensive quack treatment at the notorious Clinic for Dissociative Studies.

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The Clinic for Dissociative Studies was founded by the main promoter of the satanic panic in the UK Valerie Sinason and the dangerous charlatan who tried to convince me that I had been abused by a satanic cult (something that I know I have never experienced) works there currently in a prominent position.

It is appalling that vulnerable people are being treated at Clinic for Dissociative Studies and that precious public funds are being diverted to such a disreputable organisation.

I am depressed but unsurprised to learn of Leigh Day's involvement in milking the trans gravy train. Given their involvement in dirverting scarce NHS funding towards a notoriously abusive centre of charlatanry I would anticpate further extortionate raids on NHS funding to secure funding so that vulnerable adults who are suffering mental anguish can attempt to aleviate it via expensive, experiemental, irreversible and dangerous hormonal and surgical interventions.