Good Law Project Humiliated After Threatened Legal Action Against EHRC – Guido Fawkes

Good Law Project Humiliated After Threatened Legal Action Against EHRC

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Jolyon’s Good Law Project has been humiliated. Again…

It said today with regard to its battle with the EHRC over the post-Supreme Court ruling trans guidance:

“Faced with a threat of legal action, we’re picking our battles and taking down information about the commission’s consultation on trans rights.

We’re not interested in a legal battle to decide whether it was right to publish that information. We’re clear it was in the public interest given the importance of the consultation and the controversy that has already surrounded the commission’s efforts to cut it short.

But we don’t want to get distracted by a sideshow. The fight to defend trans rights is more important than a legal tussle over whether the public has a right to know about a flawed consultation.

Our challenge against the EHRC’s interim guidance goes on. And we’ll keep working to hold the commission to account over its consultation.”

The Good Law Project previously stated that “a cache of leaked documents showed the EHRC is planning to ignore half of the responses to its flawed consultation… The commission wants to finalise the redrafted guidance this consultation was supposed to inform by 18 August… there must be ‘adequate time’ both for people to consider the question and for them to respond. All the evidence is that the commission’s botched consultation breaches these guidelines and we have instructed lawyers accordingly. And we’ll update you as soon as we know more.” Looks like the EHRC instructed their lawyers too…

A judicial review claim brought by the GLP against the EHRC’s interim update was not allowed to proceed by the court. It’s getting hard keeping track of the losing streak here…