Author: Adventures in Evidence • Page 4
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GRA reform and the Equality Act: “not a single person who votes for that Bill will be able to say that they were not warned”
Yesterday, 4 October 2022, Lucy gave a presentation at an online seminar held by Woman’s Place UK, A Woman’s Place Is Working, on the importance of resolving the relationship...
5th October 2022
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Lessons from Denmark?
On Tuesday 21 June 2022, the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee will take evidence from Dr Chris Dietz of the University of Leeds, whose research addresses the...
18th June 2022
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The thin blue line: What inadequate protection for freedom of expression means in practice (March 2021)
This blog summarises why the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill needs to provide clearer protection for freedom of expression than is currently proposed by the Scottish Government....
4th March 2021
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Response to emergency consultation on protection of freedom of expression in the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill (February 2021)
Our response to the Justice Committee’s emergency consultation on freedom of expression in Bill is provided below. A PDF version of the briefing can be downloaded here. The Issue...
20th February 2021
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Freedom of expression protection in the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill: the doors are still closed (February 2021)
The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill extends the existing offence of “stirring up hatred” in relation to race, to a wider range of characteristics. As described here,...
15th February 2021
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Legislating for hatred against women: the view from the coalface (December 2020)
This blog may be accessed as a briefing here The omission of ‘sex’ as a protected characteristic is a key area of contention in the proposed Hate Crime and...
4th December 2020
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Supplementary evidence on the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill (November 2020)
We have submitted supplementary evidence to the Justice Committee in the light of (a) an open letter currently circulating which has been signed by a number of parliamentarians and...
29th November 2020
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The Scottish Parliament’s bill process and the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill
This is a post setting out how the Scottish Parliament handles government bills, and what that means for the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill. A Bill is...
30th August 2020
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GRA Reform: Meeting with Scottish Government officials 9 March 2020
On what now seems like a lifetime ago, 9 March, we met officials from the Scottish Government to discuss the consultation on the draft Gender Recognition Reform Bill. Our...
30th March 2020