December round up of ongoing court cases

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Amelia Sparrow is Challenging Bullying and Harassment in the Liberal Democrat Party. The Lib Dems have admitted they were at fault with Natalie Bird. Recent update says "Following the preliminary hearing, the full hearing has been listed for July 2025. I have Judicial Mediation listed for Friday this week (29th November) for which I need to raise £2,000 urgently for legal representation. "

Almut Gadow is suing the Open University - standing against indoctrination and for academic freedom Her lawyer is now at Doyle Clayton, who represented Maya, LGB Alliance and others. Hearing will be in Feb/March next year and the OU need to see women will go on fighting.
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Sara Morrison is bringing a Discrimination case against Belfast Film Festival The case has been listed for Hearing for 5 days, commencing on 13th January 2025. has been postponed because "my legal team and I are now pursuing an additional constructive dismissal claim alongside the existing case. "

For women Scotland are awaiting a decision on UK Supreme Court: The Definition of Sex in the Equality Act

Transparency In Schools - FOI Appeal To Access Secret Lesson Plan had an upper tribunal hearing on 16th and 17th September 2024. Latest update just says waiting for a decison.

Protect single sex facilities at work had a hearing in early October.. Naomi Cunningham will be representing Faye. No ruling on anonymity yet but there will be another try for this.

Andreas Mueller is a Public servant sued for saying sex is binary. There was a hearing on 22nd October 2024 which covered anonymity for the complainant and trying to get this case joined with Elspeth’s similar case.

That case can be found as Chair of SEEN sued for saying 'only women menstruate' and will be a 16 day hearing next year. Anonymity for the claimant was refused.

Eleanor Frances was victimised after whistleblowing over Civil Service impartiality. No recent update.

Simon Chambers was Assaulted and refused service at a pub for supporting women’s rights. There are 23 claimants in this action. There was a Review of the cases before the County Court Judge in Belfast on 16th September 2024. This has been adjourned until February, the suggestion being that there will be eight test cases including Graham Linehan and Dr Julia Long .

Linzi Smith was banned and spied on for my beliefs. Linzi is a Newcastle United fan banned from the club. Letters before action were sent to Newcastle United and the Premier League in May. Linzi is now taking legal action against the Football Association saying she wants to Kick Stonewall Out of Football.

Sarah Holman was Harassed and Victimised for supporting Women’s Rights. Employment tribunal case.

In Defence of Academic Freedom by Adult Human Female is an employment tribunal case against UCU for unlawfully discriminating against academics and the directors of the documentary because of their protected 'gender critical' beliefs.

Help Sarah’s Legal Challenge to Secure Female Only Rape Crisis Therapy. Hoping for a court date this year.

Mrs A wanted people to help me ensure my child doesn't medically transition outside the NHS She won her battle in the Court of Appeal but may need to keep fighting.

Ursula Doyle was "hounded out of my job in publishing" . The final hearing will take place next year, from the 8-17 September 2025.

Help Emma sue David Lloyd - is still live but doesnt seem to progress.

Let women play pool! The defendants have accepted that if it is determined that pool is gender-affected, then the women’s category must be male-free. There will now be an independent review involving an expert in human biology and an expert in cue sports working together.

Giggle still has a case in the Australian courts.

I'm not sure what is going on in the Green party, if you know please update.

What is happening to the nurses? Haven’t seen anything lately. But thanks for the updates.

Excellent summary OP, thanks!!

Thanks for the round-up, OP. There's certainly a lot to keep an eye on.

I've also been wondering about the nurses. I think there are two separate cases, one in Fife and one in Darlington. I can't find any recent information about either of them though. Anyone know?

Thanks 👍

Crikey, that’s quite a lot. But still, January is an excellent month for gardening.

This is my list of gardens to consider planting - however this month mumsnet refused to let me post it until amended. The Manchester nurses have not asked for funding help so unless a newspaper updates I cant say anything about what's happening there. They did see Wes Streeting after they handed in a petition signed by 48,000 people to 10 Downing Street calling for the government to do whatever is necessary to ensure women have access to single-sex changing rooms and toilets. He said he wanted to speak to NHS leadership and employers about how to navigate the issue - I hope he has done so.

They saw Wes Streeting in October. All the hospital has to do is make the main changing area single sex and the transgender person can change in the additional small cubicle they created - but they haven't done that so the transwoman has a large changing room and the women queue for the single one. It is ridiculous and makes it very obvious that for the transwoman it is all about seeing his female colleagues changing.

There is also the Leeds student - but being supported by the FSU so no obvious garden. https://archive.ph/NKvVX

Thanks for this round up OP, I hope we see some victories in 2025.

The FWS case seems like the big one, but a few others could mean positive change more widely.

I was thinking about the FWS case. If I've understood correctly, the Section 35 order that stopped the GRA being reformed in Scotland was made because of the interaction with the Equality Act, which is UK-wide legislation. If the Supreme Court rules that a GRC doesn't change a person's sex for the purposes of the single-sex exceptions in the Equality Act, ie FWS win, does that mean the rationale for the Section 35 order falls, and might that lead to the perverse effect of the GRA reform legislation (as passed at Holyrood two years ago) take effect? I may be completely wrong, and I hope I am, but it does worry me.

Good question @morningtoncrescent62

I am not knowledgeable enough to opine.

Whatever the outcome I think there will be significant legal implications, and possibly even changes to the actual statute. But again, I will await the expert views when the outcome is declared.