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4 weeks ago | 
conservativewoman.co.uk | Andrea Williams |Andréa Williams
A CHRISTIAN nurse faces potentially career-ending disciplinary proceedings for misgendering a burly 6ft convicted paedophile who demanded to be recognised as a woman. The patient entered Jennifer Melle’s ward at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Surrey, in shackles and with a police escort to receive urological treatment in May last year. He was serving a term in a high-security men’s prison for luring underage boys into sex acts while pretending to be a teenage girl on social media.
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1 month ago | 
mondaq.com | Andrea Williams |Andréa Williams
As someone with a genetics background I can think of no betterway to celebrate International Women's Day than with a paper on the power of theX chromosome. We were always taught that in XX individuals oneX is inactivated in somatic cells to prevent unequal geneticdosing.
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1 month ago | 
dailysceptic.org | Andrea Williams |Andréa Williams
This is about the extraordinary case of Rev Dr Bernard Randall and the latest developments in his story. In 2019, Dr Randall, an ordained Church of England (CofE) minister, was working without any issues at Trent College in Derbyshire. The college had a CofE chapel and a CofE ethos and Dr Randall was employed to pastor, teach and uphold Christian beliefs in the school.
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1 month ago | 
mondaq.com | Andrea Williams |Andréa Williams
We were delighted to see another groundbreaking technology fromour client - the John Innes Centre - featured in The Guardian thisweek. The article reports on the research from Myriam Charpentierand her team at the JIC who have identified specific mutations thatimprove endosymbiosis in legumes and wheat. Endosymbiosis is theterm used to describe the symbiotic or "special"relationship that exists between plants and nitrogen-fixingbacteria and fungi that live in plant roots.
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1 month ago | 
thetimes.com | Andrea Williams |Andréa Williams
The school defended its decision based on potential reputational damage, its belief that the posts were objectionable and its concerns that someone who holds such views might treat a homosexual or trans pupil less favourably than other pupils. The Court of Appeal unanimously rejected that logic, ruling that where an employer wishes to discipline an employee for how they manifest a religious or philosophical belief, the test must be objective and based on behaviour that is clearly inappropriate.
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2 months ago | 
thecritic.co.uk | Andrea Williams |Andréa Williams
Christians should breathe a sigh of relief on hearing the verdict On 12 February 2025, after nearly seven years of litigation, the Court of Appeal unanimously ruled that Kristie Higgs was the victim of discrimination after she was dismissed by her employer for having expressed her Christian beliefs. It is a judgment that feels like it has come from a completely different planet to just about every other ruling in recent UK legal history.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Andrea Williams |Andréa Williams
Ten years ago gene editing plants was far from commonplace
– indeed, the first CRISPR edited mammalian cells had only
just been achieved. Fast-forward ten years and a search for gene
edited crops lists numerous successful trials, from GABA-enriched
tomatoes for better sleep to disease resistant risotto rice. The
possibilities for gene editing to transform agriculture, initially
at least, seemed limitless.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Andrea Williams |Andréa Williams
Cambridge University have created a new PhD prize in comparative
biology in memory of the first female botanist to be elected to The
Royal Society and the first woman to receive the Gold medal of the
Linnean Society of London - Agnes Arber. Her story is inspiring. She studied botany at Cambridge in 1899 at a time where women were
not even allowed to join practical classes! However - she went on
to publish four books and numerous papers on the morphology of
moncot plants in particular.
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May 22, 2024 | 
thecritic.co.uk | Andrea Williams |Andréa Williams
How have we reached the point where expressing your opinion can consign you to a Kafkaesque nightmare? It all began with one innocuous tweet. A young and upcoming Conservative councillor in Northamptonshire, concerned about sexually explicit LGBTQI+ Pride events attended by children, dared to express the Christian belief that “Pride is Sin” on Twitter. The tweet led to arrests, interrogations, media censorship and even threats from the police to storm a planning committee meeting.
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May 21, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Andrea Williams |Andréa Williams
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