GLP v EHRC judgement is coming tomorrow

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Listing in the Administrative Court for tomorrow not before 11am: read out of the judgment in our challenge to the EHRC Interim Guidance.

https://bsky.app/profile/goodlawproject.org/post/3meo6ow7ow22k

Thank you for the heads up!

Ooh. Seems like the GLP have seen it already, as is normal. And don't sound very positive about it...

We will share our thoughts on what the judgment means on our channels, and on our website, as soon as we are able to.

https://bsky.app/profile/goodlawproject.org/post/3meo6r5ny2c2k

Thanks op

I read that as though he wasn't
happy. Can't always tell, though.

Is that his Blue Sky profile picture? Looks like a police mugshot

People meanly said he looked like Epstein.

Given that he usually crows about his 'wins' even when he loses, he seems surprisingly restrained here.

The reading of the GLP judgement is going to take 5 minutes?!

The reading of the Palestinian Action judgement is going to take an hour...

https://bsky.app/profile/goodlawproject.org/post/3meo6vcmhm22k

Fully expected him to be an armed robber or a drug smuggler on the run in Spain from that shot.

What can a judge say in five minutes?

If the judge were going to engage with the EHRC's advice, ie if the GLP won, surely it would take more than five minutes?

Well he's not allowed to give anything away, but we know him well enough to read between the lines. And a judgement that will take five minutes to read out...

Hey, ChatGPT: "What would Jolyon Maugham look like if he owned an island ?"

2 words.

2nd word.

Sounds like "cough"

So maybe it's:

"The guidance has already been withdrawn, off you trot",

or

"Jog on mate, you've got it wrong"

Aaaand, of course, many people have been feeling that Bridget Phillipson has been putting off laying down the EHRC guidance until after this judgement...

I definitely think they have been stalling to hear the outcome of this. The arguments the government's barrister made in court were the ones coming from backbench TRA Labour MPs (such as mine - something about case by case, most marginalised demographic ever blah blah), so if the JR dismisses these, then they really cannot justify continuing to sit on the guidance.

The outcome tomorrow is really important to try and get some progress on this, so I hope it goes the way we want.

I thought it's his "I'm a big serious lawyer and oh so concerned about big serious things" expression so that people don't think he's a satire account taking the piss.

Has anyone ever heard a judge tell someone off for being a smartarse ?

From Reddit re the schools guidelines which are possibly due for release in 7 mins

Oops

This is all going to be very interesting.

Fans self frantically

Friday the 13th too!

The schools guidance is unequivocal on single sex facilities and sports for children.

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