Category: Legal Action
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Men in Scottish Women’s Prisons Unlawful
“We are thrilled with the result, but it should never have come to this.” The Scottish government’s policy of putting men in women’s prisons has today been ruled unlawful. A judicial review found in favour of the campaign group For Women Scotland, who argued the current Scottish Prison Service policy of taking into account a…
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Legal Gengar trial “shambles”
Matthew Heath is the man behind Grift Watch. He is known as Legal Gengar. His trial for the harassment of Stephanie Hayden has been adjourned until 19 October. It was due to happen today. The date for today’s trial was set back in February. Unfortunately the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) seems unable to manage even…
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NHS: Gender Doctors Harmed Children
An NHS investigation into the activities of WellBN – a Brighton GP surgery which prescribed cross-sex hormones to children – has found it caused “actual potential harm” to its young patients and “fell substantially below” the professional standards of care required. A Patient Safety Investigation Report, completed on 8 May, but published on the NHS…
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Gender Clinic Investigation Stays Secret
A parent taking the WellBN gender clinic in Brighton to court over the treatment of his child has lost his bid to see the results of a recently completed investigation into potential malpractice at the clinic. The report was commissioned in June last year. As part of its scope, investigators were asked to: Their report…
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Linehan is Acquitted: Smiles All Round
At 2.55pm today, the Honourable Mrs Justice Tipples overturned Graham Linehan’s conviction for criminal damage to a trans activist’s phone, on the basis that she and her panel could not be sure that Linehan caused the alleged damage to the phone. Speaking afterwards Linehan said: “The decision of the court to throw out this case…
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Glinner Rides Again
or: Day 1 of Graham Linehan’s appeal against his conviction for criminal damage at Southwark Crown Court The first and most important thing to know about this appeal is that it is essentially a re-trial. In order for Graham Linehan to have a fair re-trial neither the judge nor the two lay panellists sitting either…
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Avoiding Compelled Speech in Court
In March, the Crown Prosecution Service made fools of themselves, reporting that a “woman” had been found guilty of murdering “her” partner. Reader, the woman was a man. The CPS’ defence was that Aurin Makepeace was afforded female pronouns in court, and this justified the CPS lying to the public. It is the logic of…
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Let’s All Go To The Lobby
I could not attend the Women’s Rights Network’s “Do No Harm” lobby day in Parliament on Tuesday, but my friend Susi could, and did. I am grateful to her for writing up the experience for the GenderBlog: “10 March 2026, and an unfamiliar ball of fire was hanging in the sky above Westminster Palace. A…
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Puberty blocker JR stayed till July
The government’s attempt to stay James Esses, Keira Bell and the Bayswater Group’s judicial review (JR) of the Pathways Puberty Blocker trial has succeeded. There will now be an eight week pause in proceedings to give the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and King’s College London (KCL) a chance to discuss the issues…
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FWS day 3: Suicide is Shameless
The arguments advanced by the Scottish government in court today boiled down to a simple proposition: banning men from women’s prisons puts transgender prisoners at increased risk of suicide, and that is “unacceptable”. Gerry Moynihan KC, acting for the Scottish government, told the judge, Lady Ross, that a blanket ban on men in women’s prisons…