Alison Atack
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Solicitor and Law Society of Scotland President 2018/19
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16-08-2018 14:57:02
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Susan Dalgety Michelle Thomson Scottish Government What a powerful and moving speech by Michelle Thomson. She speaks for so many of us. All she is asking for is for the law to be respected by ScotGov and for it to stop wasting time and money by tilting at windmills.
Once again For Women Scotland have educated the Scottish Government and common sense has finally prevailed to ensure Scottish schools adhere to the Supreme Court’s decision and the Court of Session finding against Borders Council in June. We should not have had to rely on Scottish
To Lucy Powell MP: 1. The Supreme Court upheld womens legal rights to single sex services provisions & sports. 2. It's the law. 3. It always has been the law. 4. Parliamentarians do not have a say on whether or not to uphold the law. Yours, The Labour Party member. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…
This is a stupid take from Lucy Powell MP & those advising her. The "rules" are not "becoming law". The law was settled by the Supreme Court in April. If Ms Powell wants to change the law & remove women's rights from EA2010, she will have to make that case. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…
Paul Sweeney James Bundy Glasgow Labour Group Glasgow Times Do the SNP believe stroke only affects people during office hours ?? If this is the case then people from central Scotland would be safer being driven to a hospital in England out of office hours or on weekends … Beggars belief..
My co-editor Lucy Hunter Blackburn, fellow writers and, I am sure, the book’s many readers are pleased the complaint was upheld, but it’s a telling snapshot of Scottish civil society that a tiny group of people had such influence over an important institution. There’s lessons here for
The FOI that released the minutes of the June meeting between Shirley-Anne Somerville & Neil Gray and the EHRC has yet to be published by Scottish Government. So here they are:
EXCLUSIVE The Donald Macleod Column: Fast Track Planning Laws Threaten to Silence Music Venues open.substack.com/pub/theglasgow… The Scottish Government 🏴 should scrap fast track planning laws and enshrine Agent of Change principle in law to protect clubs, pubs and venues. Night Time Industries Association
Sarah Phillimore We are all rooting for you Sarah. I’m sure For Women Scotland would appreciate the gesture, especially as they are being prevented from being rightly reimbursed for their legal costs following the Supreme Court judgment as the Scottish Government are behaving petulantly.
This interview with Susan Smith of For Women Scotland was so weirdly hostile. She and the other women had - just a week earlier - achieved a quite remarkable victory in the UK Supreme Court. Did the programme’s editorial team think Susan & colleagues had done something wrong?