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barbararich.bsky.social
Barrister, mediator (England + Wales) https://www.5sblaw.com/our-people/barbara-rich/ law of inheritance, trusts, mental incapacity + interested in legal history, public understanding of law, crowdfunding. Londoner. https://bleakhouserevisited.substack.com
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The UKSC's decision should come as no surprise. @michaelpforan.bsky.social 's analysis was, in legal terms, completely compelling, regardless of the view one takes of what the law ought to be.

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Judgment of UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers, a very important decision on statutory interpretation and the limits of the legal fiction in s9 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004. No change to meaning of “woman” in the Equality Act 2010 www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...

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Some thoughts on the arguments in the For women Scotland case and some of the context. This case is an exercise in statutory interpretation

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Inner Temple gardens in spring

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A former senior British diplomat & former ambassador was stalked, harassed & defrauded, a jury at Wood Green crown heard. Farah Damji, founder of The View Magazine, who the jury heard has previous convictions for stalking, denies the charges -- in @thetimes.com .

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My piece about Mahan Esfahani @mahanesfahani.bsky.social and the harpsichord past, present and future, from JS Bach to George Lewis, for New York Review of Books @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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