Joshua Rozenberg

1 week ago | rozenberg.substack.com | Joshua Rozenberg

Lots to report this morning as courts clear the decks ahead of the Easter break. When parliament used the terms “man” and “woman” in the Equality Act 2010, it was referring to biological sex, not acquired gender. That’s what the UK Supreme Court decided yesterday in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers. And that’s just about all it decided.

1 week ago | openlegalblogarchive.org | Joshua Rozenberg

Tragically, Zainab Abbasi was born in June 2013 with a rare and profoundly disabling inherited neurodegenerative disease. In addition she contracted swine flu in 2016 which resulted in lung damage. Both of Zainab’s parents are medically qualified, in particular, her father, Dr Rashid Abbasi, is a consultant respiratory physician working in the NHS.

1 week ago | rozenberg.substack.com | Joshua Rozenberg

Is a person with a full gender recognition certificate recognising the holder’s gender as female a “woman” for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010? That’s the question five justices of the UK Supreme Court will attempt to answer this morning when they rule on an appeal by a campaign group called For Women Scotland against an interpretation of Scottish legislation, intended to increase the proportion of women on the boards of Scottish public bodies, that has been upheld in the Scottish courts.

1 week ago | rozenberg.substack.com | Joshua Rozenberg

Russia has been asked by the European Court of Human Rights to respond to allegations that it was responsible for 24 political assassinations or attempted assassinations between 2003 and 2020. They include the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006 and the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2018. Other victims named in a include the opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, both of whom were targeted within Russia.

2 weeks ago | rozenberg.substack.com | Joshua Rozenberg

Patrick Allen is to retire in September from Hodge Jones & Allen, the “personal client” law firm he co-founded 48 years ago and has run since 1977. That was the year in which Allen qualified as a solicitor. Eight months earlier, he joined forces with Henry Hodge and Peter Jones to create a new firm, which first operated from offices above a tailor’s shop on Camden High Street, London. A bank manager who gave each of them a start-up loan was among their early clients.