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Dr Hannah Quirk

1 year

It's official! I am taking over as General Editor of The Criminal Law Review from the May issue. Congratulations and thanks to @OrmerodDavid for 10 years at the helm. If you have ideas for articles, do get in touch crimlreditor @gmail .com

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Dr Hannah Quirk

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7 months

Normally @ucu is quick to celebrate wins for workers in employment tribunals & to criticise poor behaviour by university management. @JoPhoenix1 's case exposed a huge problem in HE. I wonder why it is taking so long for @DrJoGrady & @UCUequality to comment...

Prof Jo Phoenix

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have received the Tribunal’s judgment in my case against the OU today: I won! The Tribunal found that I was discriminated against and harassed because of my gender critical beliefs, and that I was constructively dismissed.

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Whether you agree with Prof Stock or not - once you cede the point that academics can be harassed or fired for unpopular views, then none of us is safe. I cannot understand a trade union that thinks this is a positive

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@ucu

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A statement from UCU:

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@DrJoGrady @JamesSBeal A union is supposed to defend its members' employment rights, not tell them what to think. Trans people should be protected, but UCU should also be defending academic freedom for gender critical staff & the (mostly lesbian) academics who have been bullied for their views

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I've been misgendered by the General Secretary of my union!

Jo Grady

@DrJoGrady

3 years

tbh, I’m sad for the middle aged men who spend their Friday nights getting angry with me (and others, and everything) in the QTs. Hope they find joy and meaning in their lives that isn’t dependent on how much they oppose other people 🕯 🙏🏻

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My letter in @thetimes today about Lily Cole and why self-ID is not just a personal choice

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I got involved in the sex v gender debate because of my concerns about women prisoners being held with men who ID as women. As @JoPhoenix1 said, more academics need to speak up about this. Tomorrow the House of Lords debates #KeepPrisonsSingleSex . I hope #Amendment214 passes

Women's Rights Network - WRN

@WomensRightsNet

3 years

On 10/1 HOL debates #Amendment97ZA seeking to stop male prisoners being housed in women's prisons. We ask the Lords to consider the safety & dignity of women uppermost in the debate & support the amendment #KeepPrisonsSingleSex #PoliceCrimeBill #Amendment214 @NoXYinXXprisons

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@charilaou_alex @DrJoGrady @JessicaLBarnard So you want @UKLabour members to pledge to abolish all the positive measures it helped to enact to combat sex discrimination, end female athletes chances of winning, & allow rapists to be placed in women's prisons? Really?

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3 years

That it needed an appeal to establish that stating facts is worth of respect in a democratic society is frightening. Lots of people & organisations need to think about how this came about. Even if you disagree with Maya on this, the precedent protects every one #ThankYouMaya

Maya Forstater

@MForstater

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We won!

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Every academic should, without equivocation, condemn the intimidation of Prof Kathleen Stock. @ucu @UCUequality @DrJoGrady & @SussexUni need to issue statements immediately (or explain why they won't) #IStandWithStock #ShameOnSussexUni

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5 years

My letter in The Times today about the police examining complainants' phones in rape cases

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Hi @DavidLammy - As Shadow Justice Secretary, you must know that women in prison have precious few rights to hoard. The right not to be imprisoned with rapists or strip-searched by a male officer who identifies as female should be unequivocal.

Maya Forstater

@MForstater

3 years

women and girls who don't want be forced to undress with male strangers and colleagues Thaat's who @davidlammy is calling dinosaurs trying to "hoard rights" 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Do they never want to be in power again?

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@CPSUK It's deception regarding sex not gender. Also sex is observed, often in utero, not assigned at birth

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@HannahQuirk1

3 years

@ayeshahazarika The hounding of JK Rowling terrifies many people which is why organisations such as @fawcettsociety need to speak up rather than 'both sides' the issue. Only 1 side insists on 'no debate' while the other faces threats, ostracism & sackings."Courage calls to courage everywhere!"

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3 years

Professor Robert Wintemute (Professor of Human Rights Law @KCL_Law ): change of opinion came from listening to women. A very balanced and informative article

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7 months

I have nothing but sympathy for the bereaved families but, rather than just repeating "he got away woth murder", responsible reporters should be explaining what a partial defence of diminished responsibility means & what a hospital order entails.

Nottingham attack sentencing latest: 'He got away with murder': Angry families hit out as 'monster'...

The families of the victims of Valdo Calocane hit out at the police after he was sentenced to a hospital order. Nottinghamshire Police has come under fire for missing opportunities to stop Calocane,...

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6 years

This is a disturbing story but as inquiries are ongoing & no charges yet brought it seems wrong to run a front page story with the suspect's photo, family & educational history, price of her house & quotes about her from unnamed & tenuous connections

Police arrest nurse Lucy Letby over ‘murder’ of eight babies at Countess of Chester Hospital

A neonatal nurse has been arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to kill six more in a scandal affecting dozens of families.Detectives investigating as many as 17 deaths and...

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Still no comment from @ucu about @OpenUniversity being found to have unlawfully dismissed, victimised, harassed & directly discriminated against Professor @JoPhoenix1

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@HannahQuirk1

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Normally @ucu is quick to celebrate wins for workers in employment tribunals & to criticise poor behaviour by university management. @JoPhoenix1 's case exposed a huge problem in HE. I wonder why it is taking so long for @DrJoGrady & @UCUequality to comment...

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@DaniGaravelli1 @ProfChalmers @heraldscotland Your argument seems to rest on the premise that JK Rowling's comments were hateful. Scrutiny of the new legislation is impossible if its critics fear being arrested for stating basic biological facts.

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4 years

The Home Secretary is a busy woman so, tl:dr - ministers attacking lawyers can lead to murders (p41 my book, happy to supply any references she needs)

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2 years

@MayorofLondon @stonewalluk How do you include and represent the views of women who argue for sex-based services & care? Or gay people who say they are same-sex attracted? Sex is a protected characteristic but Stonewall has replaced this with gender. This is not inclusive.

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An Oxford academic has to have security guards for her protection in her lectures but I can't find any comment from our union condemning this situation. Whether you agree with her or not, this is an attack on free speech & academic freedom. @ucu @DrJoGrady

Holly Smith

@hollysmithhere

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Threats against @ucu member just for doing her job #solidarity @selina_todd @UCUequality @ucu @OxfordUCU "Prof Todd said that transgender activists started making complaints about her on the basis that her teaching of feminist history was “transphobic”.

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My letter in The Times arguing that Parliament should provide a better miscarrriages of justice compensation scheme #WrongfulConvictions #PostOfficeScandal

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3 years

@JamesBarry1789 @nytimes @jk_rowling I'm cancelling my subscription

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"...women feel threatened, degraded and even traumatised. This has to stop. Women have rights, even while serving a prison sentence.”

Kenny MacAskill ‘was kept in the dark about trans reforms in prisons’

Kenny MacAskill said he was blindsided by prison reforms that allowed trans prisoners to move to women’s jails while he was justice secretary.The former SNP MP

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@HannahQuirk1

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@FondOfBeetles I'd have a chat with the University lawyers re the potentially defamatory nature of that first paragraph too

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@HannahQuirk1

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I would also like to hear from the other candidates running for General Secretary @zenscara @ewan_mg and @RedSazzler

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Rapists wrongly labelled as ‘women’ by police Over the past four years, police forces have referred 260 “females” to the CPS to consider a charge of rape.

Rapists wrongly labelled as ‘women’ by police

Police adopt self-declared gender of alleged sex attackers, despite Home Secretary telling them not to

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@HannahQuirk1

2 years

@Daragh_Murray You have written about "the harassment of trans staff and students” but not mentioned the the harassment of those with a gender critical viewpoint. This is curious as I am only aware of GC staff & students being harassed, marginalised or forced to issue apologies for wrongthink

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@DaniGaravelli1 @ProfChalmers @heraldscotland Thanks for replying. You say they don't breach the law but suggest they are hateful. Stating that people cannot change sex isn't hateful. If one side of a debate fears the consequence of speaking, we end up with policies such as rapists in women's prisons which is genuinely cruel

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@AdamWagner1 @HumanRightsCtte @HarrietHarman It is hard to judge the allegations: "leaders at the EHRC being actively involved in removing rights from trans people in the courts, as well as holding meetings with “gender critical” groups." I have no idea what the former means & it is entirely appropriate to meet w GC groups

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4 years

My letter in @thetimes on the proposal for suspending jury trials due to Covid-19

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1 year

Outside Parliament now #StopTheBill #RefugeesWelcome

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@AnnelieseDodds @LabWomenDec @YvetteCooperMP Thank you Anneliese. Will @uklabour commit to updating the Equality Act to make clear that biological sex is the protected characteristic & that no man, however he identifies, should be in a women's prison?

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3 years

It is extraordinary that nobody in this article mentioned investigation & trial delays as a reason for complainants withdrawing from the process

Reluctant victims let suspects off hook

One in five criminal cases is dropped despite a suspect being identified due to the apparent reluctance of victims to support a prosecution.Nearly one million

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2 years

@JoPhoenix1 @AngelaRayner Very disappointing from @AngelaRayner -especially the failure to defend Rachel Reeves & Rosie Duffield against the transphobia slur

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This time with the right author: "Women’s prisons can house inmates who were born male but identify as female, regardless of whether they have gone through any physical transformation" @bindelj argues we must protect the female prison estate

Protect the female estate | Julie Bindel | The Critic Magazine

“Protect the female estate” is the third article in Julie Bindel’s new online column for The Critic, “The feminist fix”, which explores feminism’s answer to today’s challenges. The second article…

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2 years

After 20 years researching & teaching miscarriages of justice, #Panorama on the #PostOfficeScandal still shocked me. Please watch it. #WrongfulConvictions via @bbciplayer

BBC One - Panorama, The Post Office Scandal

The story of the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history.

www.bbc.co.uk

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1 year

My letter in @thetimes today with a suggestion for compensation for Andrew Malkinson #WrongfulConvictions

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3 years

After I retweeted the "apology" that was made to @BarbaraRich_law , the sender blocked me,

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@Wonkhe @OpenUniversity It's "her" university and publishing this on the first day of her tribunal might be something her solicitors want to add to their case

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@SexMattersOrg Because women need privacy, safety (toilets, hospital wards, prisons), female-oriented trauma services (domestic abuse, rape crisis centres) & fair competition in sport

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@chasestrangio Periods & pregnancy is part of it but also equal pay, fair sport, medical research that examines how men & women respond differently to illness & treatment, domestic abuse, FGM, better representation in politics... it's about women, not trans people

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@JeanHatchet @NewStatesman @LogicallyAI I'm @HannahQuirk1 . I became aware of the problems over self-ID through my concerns about, & academic interest in, women in prison. I think we should #KeepPrisonsSingleSex - it's inhumane not to

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3 years

Interesting article re hate crime statistics

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2 years

@NicolaSturgeon Thank you for speaking up on this, but rights cannot be protected if you will not name the class of people affected and the specific issues that they face.

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5 years

"Since 1989, 27 percent of the 325 people exonerated through DNA testing originally confessed to their crimes" #wrongfulconvictions

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@esquire

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Netflix’s When They See Us tells the story of five young men imprisoned for a brutal crime-a crime committed by Matias Reyes.

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3 years

Once again, whatever your views on this topic, there are very dangerous practices emerging to silence political disagreement. Raising safeguarding concerns should not result in a police interview

The Critic

@TheCriticMag

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“A teacher and mother-of-three has been questioned under caution by Merseyside Police for sending a letter to Girlguiding UK raising safeguarding concerns.” — Kim Thomas interviews a woman hounded by the police for “misgendering” a gun-toting Girl Guide

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@VictoriaPeckham @Nancy_M_K The @ChtyCommission 's view on this would be interesting

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@RefugeCharity @baronessnewlove This amendment risks making a world where women can't speak up about protecting single-space refuges or rape crisis centres without fear of prosecution

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@RoddyQC Thank you for speaking up on this. I haven’t seen any self-ID advocates losing their jobs for their views or getting threats from gender critical supporters but, if I do, I will condemn that unreservedly

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I have never met @JoPhoenix1 but I've donated to her crowdfunder because the way she has been treated for doing her job is awful. If you care about academic freedom, please chip in - she's nearly at her stretch target

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6 years

NEW JOB: after 13 years at Manchester, I will be moving to start my academic teenage years as Reader in Criminal Law at King's College London on 1 August

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@bindelj @RachelRMoran @NottmLibraries Could @NottmLibraries recommend any books about both societies which silence women & the effects of failing to stand up to bullies? Fiction or non-fiction.

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@CommissionerHR There are some important points in here but it is very concerning if you consider people calling for single-sex prisons, medical care & sports to be "toxic public discourse towards trans people".

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In a police state they'd have shot him & the person filming it in the head There wouldn't be an independent police complaints procedure or a right to judicial review of policing decisions. If he had been arrested, no legal aid lawyer, PACE Codes or fair trial. Apart from that...

Götz von Berlichingen #FBPE

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2 years

People always claim we don't live in a police state...how would a police state look and act differently?

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1 year

This is excellent news but highlights the shameful fact that most people who are wrongly convicted are not entitled to any compensation unless they can prove beyond reasonable doubt that they did not commit the offence

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1 year

Govt GLO compensation scheme for 492 qualifying Subpostmasters has just opened. After 20 years of campaigning Alan Bates (who advised on the scheme) et al finally have a route to proper redress. Details here:

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@oxfamgb @napikoski Thanks Rob, it would be helpful if you would clarify how this product failed your test - exactly what the "inspiration women" are supposed to have said that shows a lack of respect

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@HannahQuirk1

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@lisanandy The Labour Party should not be attacking organisations that support women's, sex-based, rights & safe spaces. Nor should it close down debate over how to balance conflicting rights. Nobody should be abused & neither side silenced #ExpelMe

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@bphillipsonMP Could you explain why you think freedom of speech does not need statutory protection in higher education?

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@UCLout @PrideInLondon Nobody thinks trans people are a threat to academic freedom but the silencing & harassment of gender critical students and scholars is

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@DrJoGrady @stonewalluk @UCU should be upholding academic freedom & free speech but you shamefully failed to support Selina Todd, Kathleen Stock & Jo Phoenix. Stonewall's no debate policy is antithetical to academic freedom & protecting women. Well done @ucl

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@HannahQuirk1

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None of the candidates for @ucu General Secretary has said anything about defending academic freedom. What is the point of an academics' union that won't speak up about this & defend colleagues who have lost their jobs over this? @DrJoGrady @ewan_mg @RedSazzler @zenscara

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This is someone campaigning to be elected as general secretary of @ucu - it’s quite obvious she will not support those of us who defend material reality - why would anyone vote for someone who thinks it’s ok to call people with protected beliefs bigots

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@rejserin @JoPhoenix1 @sally_hines You might need to read the decision again. Nobody's personal identity is threatened by somebody else's views. Part of university is learning how to disagree based on reasoned arguments

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@billybragg If you want to learn about keeping women safe in prison, (many of whom have suffered male violence) as well as respecting their rights to privacy & dignity I suggest you follow @NoXYinXXprisons @RichardJGarside @JoPhoenix1 & @Womans_Place_UK @LucyBaldwin08 & @francescrook

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Sex offenders free to abuse children after changing ID

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@AlexSharpe64 "Menopausal women" seems a touch misogynistic Alex. Bio pronouns aren't for everyone. Some women working in male dominated jobs say it's detrimental to draw attention to the fact they are women, & not everyone believes in gender ideology or compelled speech.

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@scotgovhealth @HumzaYousaf @Carolineslamb @NHSScotland @NHSScotlandCE If your staff are acting in a way that is unfairly discriminatory to patients, that is a training or disciplinary matter. If they are behaving professionally, their beliefs are their own business & should not be advertised at work

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Law students are qualifyng with upwards of £60k debt. Fees such as this are insulting & mean criminal work will be almost impossible for those without supportive families /partners. It also reverses the efforts made to improve diversity in the professions

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We will still be paid not a penny to read through thousands of pages of disclosure - the vital material that could hold the key to saving an innocent person from years in prison. Our median take-home pay will still be a modest £27k. The most junior will still take home under £8k.

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My editorial in the July Criminal Law Review about the dangers of jury-less trials is available on Westlaw

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Please read- @OpenUniversity Criminal Law tutor dismissed for questioning policy which required using a rapist's preferred pronouns and normalising paedophilia

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@UCUequality In contrast, UCU has no clear policies regarding sex-based rights and does not defend the academic freedom of its members

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It's dreadful that professors have been harassed for their views but Lisa Keogh was a student. Today seems like a good day to support her action

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@DrProudman @Independent Feminism is "the struggle to end sexist oppression” - it's not about solving every problem. How can we identify the problems women face if we can't define woman? Or protect vulnerable women in prisons or rape crisis centres if we can't protect the single sex spaces they need?

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The AG's appeal against Valdo Calocane's sentence has unsurprisingly been rejected. As I argued in last month's Crim LR , this has caused further distress to the families & risks damaging public confidence in the judiciary. She should not have made it

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"LSE is only the second major university to have had the courage to stand up to Stonewall, following UCL. This is a brave first step towards providing a genuinely inclusive environment for staff & students." By my colleague @johnarmstrong5 via @spectator

LSE is right to cut ties with Stonewall

The London School of Economics (LSE) shocked their student union this week by informing them that the university is disaffiliating from Stonewall. The union responded with horror, demanding a...

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@racheledini1 I don't recognise the situation you are describing but Twitter does reinforce echo chambers. Having reflected on the issue so much, could you explain what persuaded you that rapists should be transferred to women's prisons?

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"It occurs to me that incarcerating a male rapist in a women’s prison is a unique example of allowing a convicted offender to maintain access to his weapon and potential victims." @polblonde

Caroline Nokes is confused about gender self-ID

Why is it important to know someone’s birth sex? The Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, who chairs the Women and Equalities Select Committee, evidently has no idea. ‘Why on earth would we want to?’ she...

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@Amandycat Why don't you go & listen to what she has to say? You might learn something about avoiding defamation & strawman arguments and how to challenge arguments you disagree with

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@Transsomething @AveryOfBirds @UCLout @PrideInLondon I think we both know that isn't true. Most universities are signed up to Stonewall, UCU would back them, & the press would be all over a case like that. It is only gender critical scholars who have suffered career detriment over this

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@vonny_bravo The dream lives on! On a bus in West London last year an 11/12 yr old boy was telling a preposterous story. His friend theatrically stroked his chin in reply saying slowly "Oh Gan-DALPH!"

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Human rights group @AmnestyIreland calls on the media & politicians to "no longer provide legitimate representation" to those expressing concerns about women & girls' safety re gender ID, deeming them "misinformed & transphobic" offering a "despicable brand of harassment."

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Trans Rights are Human Rights. Solidarity, love and thanks to the trans community, today and always.

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Whatever your views are on this topic, if we do not stand up to protect academic freedom unequivocally, then we all lose. @KCL_UCU @ucu need to protest against this #IStandWithJohnArmstrong

John Armstrong

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🧵The research I wished to conduct into athletes' views on trans inclusion has been blocked by the King's College London (KCL) ethics committee. The letter rejecting the application stated that by using the word "males" I was misgendering athletes.

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@Colmogorman @SResisters @VictoriaPeckham Mr O'Gorman, what do you think should happen when a man convicted of rape says he is trans? (This is a real example, not scaremongering). Do you have a suggestion for how vulnerable women prisoners can be protected from someone exploiting the right to self ID?

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@fawcettsociety What about the right to not be imprisoned/treated with men; to choose the sex of your rape counsellor & to know that DV refuges will not allow men in? Single-sex toilets, language that refers accurately to women, not "cervix-havers". Accurate stats to measure inequalities...?

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Stephen Bush suggests that the Labour Party should make court waiting times as important politically as NHS ones

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@CollegeofPolice @WeAreFairCop @Docstockk Your guidance says a non crime hate incident will not be disclosed on an enhanced DBS check "unless it is relevant to the job". Can you give an example of when it would not be considered relevant for a teacher or carer?

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@michaelpforan I'm sorry you have had abuse. Your explanations are enormously valuable. Lots of people learn from them who don't comment

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"Staff and students must be free to discuss and debate controversial issues." So why won't @ucu and @DrJoGrady condemn the threats made to @selina_todd that mean she has security guards in her lectures?

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UCU general secretary @DrJoGrady said: “The Prevent programme threatens freedom of speech and stifles debate and open discussion. Staff and students must be free to discuss and debate controversial issues without fear of being referred to the authorities.”

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@DrProudman If your "feminism" includes men who identify as women then it prioritises their needs of the safety & dignity of women (in particular in prisons); it removes fair competition in female sport; and makes discrimination claims much harder

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@DickinsonTimes It depends who you mean by "we". There are plenty of experts you could have spoken to help you understand the biological advantages men have ( @Scienceofsport @FondOfBeetles ), the ethical issues ( @runthinkwrite ) or the threat to women's sport ( @sharrond62 ).

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Scrapping juries in rape trials risks miscarriages of justice (and other reasons why it is a bad idea) - my piece in @guardianopinion #wrongfulconvictions

Scrapping juries in rape trials risks rise in miscarriages of justice | Hannah Quirk

There is no evidence that juries are failing their duty, says criminal law reader Hannah Quirk

www.theguardian.com

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It's hard to know where to start with this dangerous suggestion from @anncoffey_mp that jury trials should be scrapped for rape cases. "Rape myths" do need to be addressed but defendants are still entitled to a presumption of innocence

Juries may need to be scrapped because they believe rape myths

Juries may need to be scrapped in rape trials because of the dominance of rape myths and the shockingly low charging and conviction rates.That may sound controversial but there is a crisis engulfing...

www.thetimes.com

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4 years

As the government seems to listen to sports stars, maybe Ben Stokes, Steven Gerrard or Paul Gascoigne could explain why jury trials are so important

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@DavidCollinsST Is this not in breach of his duty of patient confidentiality?

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5 years

Disgraceful reporting by @thetimes about the arrested lorry driver. He hasn't been charged so to suggest he could be a "mass murderer" & to publish personal details about him & his family is inexcusable @IpsoNews

Mo Robinson: Driver of ‘the Polar Express’ at centre of lorry deaths murder inquiry

Smiling out of the window of a lorry, the keen young haulier seemed anything but a people smuggler, let alone a mass murderer. Mo Robinson, 25, now faces one of the largest criminal investigations in...

www.thetimes.com

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@jameswmullen Agreed. CPS need to do better at explaining these cases though: "a lengthy investigation showed this was an awful accident, not a crime. The driver had a fit & lost control of the car. She had never had a fit before & there was nothing she could have done to prevent this tragedy"

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My book 'The Rise and Fall of the Right of Silence' is out in paperback today.

The Rise and Fall of the Right of Silence

Within an international context in which the right to silence has long been regarded as sacrosanct, this book provides the first comprehensive, empirically-based analysis of the effects of curtailing...

www.routledge.com

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@eoinmauricedaly @michaelpforan What evidence would you like Eoin? The disproportionate number of males identifying as female in prison being sex offenders? The evidence of girls feeling uncomfortable / embarrassed getting changed in front of boys? The unfairness of sport if boys can ID as girls?

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@Barristerblog So, he wants defendants and witnesses dragged to court for a hearing that will not go ahead; an attempt to publicly drive a wedge between barrister & client; & is threatening to report you to your regulator? Just as well he's not taking sides eh?

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