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The Department of Education, run by the DUP's Paul Givan, will issue its response to the Supreme Court sex ruling in advance of Equality Commission guidance, the News Letter understands.

Supreme Court sex ruling: Givan to publish schools policy ahead of ECNI guidance

Geraldine McGahey is chief commissioner of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland.

Supreme Court sex ruling: Northern Ireland 'not in state of limbo'

Graham Linehan

Father Ted creator to rely on gender definition ruling in discrimination case

It has emerged that Stormont has been operating an effective self-ID policy for toilets, which it is now reviewing.

Northern Ireland Assembly to review its trans toilets policy

Supporters of the family of GAA official Sean Brown, with widow Bridie Brown (centre), daughter Siobhan Brown (right), daughter Clare Loughran (left) arrive at Belfast's Court of Appeal Hearing where a hearing is being held following an earlier judgement that the Government's failure to order a public inquiry into the death of Sean Brown was unlawful Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Court of Appeal affirms ruling on public inquiry in Sean Brown case

A gender neutral toilet.

Equality Commission clarifies rules on single sex toilets in Northern Ireland

DUP MLA Carla Lockhart

DUP and feminist group react to FA's ban male-born transgender player ban

Sinn Fein’s Carál Ní Chuilín has previously said that the views of a women's group asking for single sex spaces were “disgraceful”.

Sinn Fein MLA wants NI sex discrimination laws revisited over trans ruling

Paula Bradshaw chairs Stormont's Executive Office committee, which is conducting an inquiry into "gaps" in equality legislation.

Beattie: MLA’s plan for courts to clarify new law a ‘dereliction of duty’

Naomi Long has defended the placing of men in women's prisons in Northern Ireland, subject to a risk assessment.

Justice Minister defends housing males in female prisons after 'risk assessment'

Paula Bradshaw says courts could clarify local equality legislation - after it is produced.

Alliance Party breaks its silence on Supreme Court 'woman' ruling

The First Minister Michelle O'Neill has declined to say whether she agrees with the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman.

First Minister avoids questions on Supreme Court ruling on definition of woman

Morning View

Editorial: Ever more obvious border in Irish Sea shows it is far from gone

Belfast City Council initially claimed a Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights won't apply in Northern Ireland.

Council confusion on whether Supreme Court sex ruling applies in NI

DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley has urged police to review their policies in light of a landmark Supreme Court ruling. Photo: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

PSNI must 'urgently clarify' its strip search policy after Supreme Court ruling

Baroness Hoey has questioned the government on the impact of the Windsor Framework on a landmark legal ruling on the definition of a woman.

Ministers to 'look carefully' at Windsor Framework impact on sex ruling
The government is looking into the potential impact of the Windsor Framework on how the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman will apply in Northern Ireland.
David Thompson

Under current rules set down by Stormont's justice department, female officers are required to conduct intimate searches of men, provided they have a gender recognition certificate.

Justice Minister urged to change strip search rules after Supreme Court ruling

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has changed his position on what a woman is. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Beattie accuses PM of 'dithering' after U-turn on what a woman is

Sinn Fein’s Carál Ní Chuilín said that the contribution of a women's group to a Stormont committee, where they asked for single sex spaces, was “disgraceful”. Arms folded, and visibly annoyed, she said: “We’ve had ‘no gays apply’ beforehand, and now it’s ‘no trans apply’”.

Analysis: Our report began fightback against Stonewall, but Stormont won't do it

Members of the Women’s Rights Network Northern Ireland at Stormont.

Women's group warns NI employers not to ignore sex-based legal protections

Baroness Kate Hoey.

Supreme Court sex ruling: NI women can't be left in a legal 'limbo' - Hoey

Maya Forstater of Sex Matters, and Susan Smith and Marion Calder, co-directors of For Women Scotland. Photo: Cath Leng.

NI women should not be 'disadvantaged' by Framework - Scottish campaigners

The DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley has called for single-sex spaces in "vulnerable environments" such as toilets. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire

'Urgent clarity' is needed on single-sex spaces in Northern Ireland - Buckley

Sinn Fein's health spokesperson David Cullinane TD. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Sinn Fein accused of 'flip-flopping' after TD apologises to trans community

Campaigners from For Women Scotland (FWS) outside the Supreme Court in London where they are challenging the Scottish Government over whether trans women can be regarded as female for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act. FWS is seeking to overturn a 2023 ruling by the Scottish courts that treating someone with a gender recognition certificate as a woman under the Equality Act is lawful

‘Woman’ in equality law refers to biological women, Supreme Court rules

Morning View

Editorial: Politicians need to fix the mess of gender laws

The UK Supreme Court in Parliament Square, central London. A judgement will be delivered on Wednesday over whether men who identify as transgender can be regarded as female for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act.

Allister: transgender laws are 'anything but progressive'
The issues arising from transgender rights are “profoundly serious” for women – particularly in relation to single sex spaces and female sport, the TUV leader has said.
David Thompson

Lobby group For Women Scotland want the law to recognise biological sex, rather than someone's gender identity, when dealing with issues such as single sex spaces.

UK Supreme Court to deliver its verdict on what a woman is

Morning View

Editorial: Bad judgements must be subject to criticism

Morning View

Editorial: A rare example of success in a legacy court case

The former H Block at the Maze prison near Lisburn has been at the centre of political controversy for over a decade. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire.

Letter: Placing blame for violence back where it belongs

Sir Keir Starmer speaking today during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons. After being quizzed by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch that the government 'may write a cheque to compensate Gerry Adams', the prime minister responded that 'we will look at every conceivable way to prevent these types of cases claiming damages'

Starmer looking at ‘every conceivable way’ to avoid compensating Adams

Morning View

Editorial: Labour buckles again on legacy, now on Adams

The government decided not to appeal a High Court ruling which meant former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams could receive compensation for his incarceration during internment. The path to compensation was closed off by the legacy act - but the court ruled Parliament did not have “compelling grounds” for the law. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Top UK legal minds slam Government on Adams compensation decision

The former Maze prison site near Lisburn. Photo: Mark Rainey

Removing block on Adams’ compensation bid will see ‘pay day’ for ex-detainees

All MLAs should be affronted by the motion being put to Stormont. In essence, they are being asked to give up their obligation and that of Parliament’s to represent the people of Northern Ireland, in favour of the EU, writes Ben Habib

Ben Habib: Unionist MLAs should boycott upcoming sham protocol vote

The protocol continues to increase its penetration into NI’s economic and business life. It is a major breach of the spirit and basis of the 1998 settlement

Letter: The Northern Ireland Protocol is a breach of the Good Friday Agreement

There are a few areas where Donald Trump could give us sleepless nights. For instance, he could start a major trade war with unknown consequences

Letter: A Trump presidency could be the stuff of nightmares

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn speaking in the House of Commons, Westminster, announcing that the Government is to establish an independent public inquiry into the 1989 loyalist murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane

IN FULL: Hilary Benn's statement announcing Finucane public inquiry

Pat Finucane, 39, was shot dead in his family home in north Belfast in February 1989 by the UDA in an attack found to have involved collusion with the State

Pat Finucane murder: NI Secretary Hilary Benn to make statement today

Donald Trump called May's verdict in the New York case a "disgrace"

Donald Trump's sentencing in hush money case postponed to September

The Good Friday Agreement is a treaty and as such part of international law. However, the consent provisions of the GFA remain largely unimplemented in UK law.

Dan Boucher: GFA protection for UK must be translated into domestic law

Joanna Cook of the Christian Institute

Christian charity turns its fire on 'conversion therapy' ban

Sam Neill leads the cast

Thursday TV choice: The Twelve (ITV1, 9pm)

Grainne Teggart, Amnesty International UK's Northern Ireland deputy director, speaking to the media outside Belfast High Court after a High Court judge ruled that one of the key elements in the UK government's Troubles Act is unlawful. Mr Justice Adrian Colton ruled that the provision for conditional immunity from prosecution for Troubles offences in the Act is not compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)

Campaigners say battle against Legacy Act is ‘half won’

The motion in the House of Commons makes it look like Article 6 is being protected. But to be convinced you have to pretend that the courts haven’t said what they said

Jamie Bryson: Westminster humble motion on Act of Union is just trickery

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson with, left, deputy, Gavin Robinson, who recently highlighted the benefits of the new deal struck with the UK government

Letter: DUP leadership has been dishonest in bid to sell their deal

Letters to editor

Letter: Henry Patterson over-complicates demand to restore Article 6

Article 6 is not some incidental or archaic provision - it is fundamental to the very existence of the UK, writes Jim Allister

Letter: Article 6 is necessary and central to our Union

The Supreme Court rejected Rishi Sunak's immigration plan as unlawful. Now critics say that the legislation cannot apply in Northern Ireland on the same basis as the rest of the country, because of the Windsor Framework

Owen Polley: The Rwanda bill could mean a tricky start to 2024 for unionists

Morning View

Editorial: PSNI right not to appeal court ruling but that cannot be end of saga

As the late Lord Trimble accurately said ‘the Union is the Acts of Union’

Jim Allister: Article 6 of Acts of Union must be restored

Letters to editor

Letter: State can be dismantled without breaching agreement

PSNI officers on patrol in south Belfast. Pacemaker

‘Eye-watering’ bill across public sector following PSNI holiday pay ruling

Gerry Adams in 1984. In 2020 his appeal against his 1975 conviction was allowed in the Supreme Court on the grounds his internment had not been considered personally by the Secretary of State even though it had been signed by the Minister of State. It was a crazy judgement that totally undermined the Carltona principle that had operated in UK law since 1939 — allowing cabinet ministers to delegate decisions

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Hip Hip Hooray– court ruling overturned so Adams can’t sue

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