The Scottish government has paid almost £400,000 to FWS

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The Scottish government has paid almost £400,000 to a campaign group which defeated ministers in a Supreme Court legal case over the definition of a woman under equality law.

For Women Scotland (FWS) says it has been paid £242,500 to cover its legal expenses for the Supreme Court challenge, and £150,000 for an earlier Court of Session case.

Coupled with its own legal fees, the government has spent at least £766,498 on the court action.

It has been asked to comment.

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(sorry it alreadhy posted by MN search just goes into an endless whirl and not displaying anything.)

Better late than never.

About time.

Have just seen this. Should really have made this the OP.

We are pleased to confirm that full and final settlement has been reached with the Scottish Ministers regarding recovery of costs incurred in pursuing the judicial review all the way to the UK Supreme Court. We have received a total of £392,500 (£150,000 for the Court of Session part of the case and £242,500 for the Supreme Court part).

The funds have been retained in a deposit account with Balfour+Manson solicitors and will be used to cover the costs of our current judicial review on prison guidance, plus any future legal action necessary to ensure the Scottish Government complies with the law.

We are eternally grateful for the overwhelming public support that enabled us to successfully challenge the Scottish Government’s unlawful actions and to clarify that “woman”, “man” and “sex” have always taken their biological meaning in the Equality Act 2010.

https://forwomen.scot/10/02/2026/uk-supreme-court-recovery-of-costs/

Just to add the FWS gives a breakdown of costs etc..

An example of transparency in action.

My money is on the activists twisting this to be FWS deliberately and hatefully taking money from the mouths and pockets of needy people* across Scotland.

(*I'm sure this will include them too)

About time they paid up but that's thieving governments for you. Quick to take, slow to give back, whether that's money or rights.

Thanks for posting OP.

Took them long enough.

£1,136,973.04 that is how much spent fighting legal cases so far by SNP. Not counting the putting the criminal men in women prisons case they are fighting right now.

Scottish Labour Women's Declaration

The use of Scottish taxpayers' money by scottishgov in their repeated attempts to remove women's rights is a scandal. On the doorsteps we're hearing about core services failing for want of cash, and this is what theSNP
choose to waste our money on. For shame.
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Trina

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£766,498.80 spent by @scotgov on the two FWS judicial reviews. Add in the costs of challenging the s35 order and the Scottish Government has spent a total of £1,136,973.04 in failed attempts to remove women's rights from law.

And yet the Scottish government are continuing the fight on this
Always easy to spend other people’s money

So the SNP has spent £1.1 million so far on trying to dismantle women’s rights, and is still determined to continue? That is rock-solid blinkered fundamentalism. Men’s wishes must override women’s rights at all costs. Weird.

How does that compare to what they’ve paid to other lobby groups for incorrect advice?

So pleased FWS finally got paid and agree, this is a fraction of what they have paid the trans lobby.