Equality Act case update from Ann Sinnott

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Update on Official sources provide unlawful guidance on the 2010 Equality Act!

Our requirements were not met and we are now moving to the second stage, which is to seek permission to proceed to Judicial Review.

We are now in process of drawing up documents to put before a judge. It’s impossible to say how long it will be before we receive that judicial decision.

It’s greatly heartening that so many see and understand the importance of this case.

Thank you so much for your comments. They are inspiring and sometimes heart-wrenching. Each and every one bolsters my spirit and strength.

Thank you for your generosity. An especial thanks to those who donated but could ill-afford to do so because of these straitened times – thank you for your sacrifice.

Your donations have covered legal costs up to this point and some proportion of second stage costs. Because of the complexity, including all the documents that have to be waded through, this case is necessarily time-consuming for our lawyers and that is costly. The second stage also generates court fees.

If it is possible for you to do so, please donate again. Also, again if it’s possible for you to do so, please draw this case to the attention of your friends, family and work associates, as well as any social media contacts.

We have already succeeded in getting EHRC to change its guidance.

With your help, we will fight to accomplish even more!

Wonder why they didn't comply having changed guidance?

Pay day shortly. Shall be digging.

Thank you for your hard work. Will get my spade out. Time to dig down some bulbs for the spring.

So as taxpayers, we are paying the EHRC to do a job which they are not going properly and now we have to pay for their lawyers to defend them against the legal action that we are having to pay for because they refuse to do their job properly. Hmm.

I also wonder which condition they refused to comply with and why.

Well done on getting so far. This will be supported I have no doubt.

Did some digging when I spotted the email

Fair bit still to dig...

Will be digging again.

will dig again when I get paid!

Well done. Will donate tomorrow. You are doing a Very Important Thing.

Brava- I shall keep doing everything I can in my very small way to help. Thank you.

I too did some digging when I spotted the email. Am pushing it out to some recently eye opened friends too!

spade ready
This is crucial

We need all the support and shovels we can get for this one.

Go Ann!! We have to reverse institutional capture as quickly as possible. This is key.

I'll donate.
This element underpins the success of all we've been working for to protect women's rights.
We need this. It's important.
Thank you Ann it's amazing work.

i shall dig some more too, but i would love to see what they have had to say for themselves. I was hoping (naively it seems) that with the GRC decision, the guidance to schools and the NHS review on GIDS for children, there might be some joined up thinking on this and the tide was turning somewhat. I guess Ann has her reasons for not publishing the response (can she even? I dont know how these things work) and may be it wouldnt be helpful having everyone and their dog picking over them, but still...

Spade in hand, Ann. Thank you for what you're doing.

And yes, I do furiously resent as a tax payer that women are having to increasingly and repeatedly dig into their own pockets, in a hard time for everyone, for endless ruddy court cases to force this country to stop disadvantaging women and enforce its own existing laws fairly.

Thank you so much for all your bravery and hard work Ann. This is going to make a huge difference to so many women and children.

I'm feeling quite horticultural!

@MichelleofzeResistance

Spade in hand, Ann. Thank you for what you're doing.

And yes, I do furiously resent as a tax payer that women are having to increasingly and repeatedly dig into their own pockets, in a hard time for everyone, for endless ruddy court cases to force this country to stop disadvantaging women and enforce its own existing laws fairly.

me too, me bloody too.

This is such an important case (and they are all important) because it goes to the heart of the wholly undemocratic regulatory capture. Thank you so, so much for doing this, and of course I'll add to the pot.

so much handing on the outcome of this case ❤️

*hanging!

Just a bump

Thanks, highame, a good day for digging. Getting there!