#United Kingdom laws

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The English Channel has been at peace for 10 days straight thanks to the weather

Can we all just take a moment to thank Mother Nature 🙏

[mysharona1987]

Dr Mamode’s shock at Starmer insisting what is happening in Gaza is not a genocide.

To be fair, when Keir Starmer made a big deal to voters that he was a Human Rights lawyer, he never specified if he was *for* or *against*them.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sophie Perry at PinkNews:

The documents leaked by the Good Law Project and reported by QueerAF state that young people and their families who use “unregulated” and “overseas providers” for gender-affirming care should cease doing so, or they may face safeguarding referrals. Speaking with QueerAF, Jo Maugham KC – executive director of the Good Law Project – said: “It’s reasonable to describe this as an attempt to force people to detransition.” The document, which the Good Law Project states does not bear the name of any NHS professional, asks providers of mental health support to children and young people (CYP) to invite those on the national waiting list for gender services for a face-to-face appointment.

[...] Furthermore, at the assessment stage, the providers have been asked to follow recommendations of the Cass Review and advise children not to take puberty blockers or gender-affirming hormones obtained via routes without “appropriate care”. Whilst it is not stated what “appropriate care” refers to, the “overseas” routes being advised against. If a trans young person disregards such advice and a provider considers that this “puts the child/young person at increased risk, then a safeguarding referral may also be appropriate in line with standard safeguarding approaches”.

In essence, if a trans young person seeks private gender-affirming care and their parents support them, they could be referred to local authorities. [...\ In a statement provided to QueerAF following the publication of its report, a spokesperson for the NHS said that this process is about putting in place an “enhanced mental health support offer for all children and young people under 18 on the waiting list for specialist gender services, or who are awaiting their first appointment with the new services.”

England continues its not-so-sterling reputation as “TERF Island”, as trans kids in England could be forced to detransition following the Cass Review, per a leaked proposal from NHS England.

[reality-detective]

If you live in the U.K. this is for you... So Pay Attention. 🤔

[bumblebeeappletree]

As urban expansion quickly replaces natural habitats, façade engineer Alistair Law has discovered a new way to restore native ecosystems for pollinators and create natural spaces for us all within cities – by turning the walls of buildings into meadows.

Alistair has developed his “Vertical Meadows” as a way to combat biodiversity loss in the heart of cities like London. To do it, he’s targeting the vertical surfaces of buildings and installing seasonal living walls of plants that are native to the region, grown directly on-site. The engineering builds on existing systems so the plants thrive year-round with limited need for water, and installation remains simple and cheap. He gets his seeds from Donald Macintyre, who grows a wild array of native plants with the help of his daughter (and some Shire horses). Together, they hand-harvest each flower to provide a biodiverse mix of 50 different native species.

Alistair is joined by Scarlett Weston of BugLife at a vertical meadow in full bloom in downtown London. She’s monitoring bees visiting the meadow, and hopes more pollinators will use these sites as stepping stones across the city, helping to bridge gaps along larger corridors she’s establishing across the UK.

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In the UK, five Just Stop Oil activists receive record prison sentences for planning to shut down the M25 highway.

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009, Terry Gilliam)

03/05/2024

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Rose Heilbron

Rose Heilbron was born in 1914 in Liverpool, England. Heilbron among the outstanding defense lawyers of the postwar era and worked on a number of high-profile criminal cases. In 1956, she was appointed Recorder of Burnley, the first judicial appointment of a woman in Britain. In 1972, Heilbron became the first woman judge at the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales. Two years later, she was appointed to the High Court, where she would remain until she retired in 1988.

Rose Heilbron died in 2005 at the age of 91.

[ugf-viridis]

[…] “This whole experience has taught me that our laws and our legal systems are no more based on morality than our climate policies are on science and the good of humanity. You won’t find the real criminals behind these walls, you will find them in the seats of parliament, running our country.”

[learningsanctum]

I already picked one out of 6/7 IGCSE subjects I promised to myself I’d commit to. Now I gotta pick the others.

I’m a mature student & already have graduated high school in my country but I want to apply to UK colleges, so here am I doing IGCSE’s. I’m applying to the Law with European Studies - so the one subject I have started is French! - so I’d love if you people helped me to chose which IGCSE subjects I should choose!

Also, if anyone know good tutors or resources that would be great because it’s not like I can afford the UK professors or preparatory courses with Brazilian currency. So anything that’s on budget (or other currencies) would help me greatly!

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Canada sanctions have targeted Amana, a company involved in the construction of illegal outposts in the West Bank. Why have the US and UK not??

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Mira Lazine for Erin In The Morning:

[Note: This edition of Erin In The Morning is brought to you by Mira Lazine, who is guest writing for Erin In The Morning after the passing of Erin’s mother. Mira Lazine is a freelance journalist covering LGBTQ+ issues, politics, and science.] On Thursday, Jo Maugham - director of the United Kingdom legal advocacy organization The Good Law Project - wrote a detailed thread on X/Twitter in which he alleges that there has been a substantial increase in the number of suicides for young trans people on the National Health Service (NHS) waitlist, and that the NHS has been suppressing the evidence. Maugham says that this occurred after the infamous 2020 Bell v. Tavistock ruling that restricted care for those under 16. While this ruling has since been overturned, the damage from it is still being felt today.

Maugham, who first announced some of these claims in a Good Law Project fundraiser opposing the British puberty blocker ban, says that he spoke with two whistleblowers. “I have seen their staff IDs and each has provided me with some internal Tavistock documents. There is no doubt they are who they say they are.”  The first whistleblower reportedly said that prior to the 2020 Bell ruling, only one young trans person died from suicide in seven years and that since the ruling, there have been sixteen deaths. This data is reported to come from an anonymous doctor referred to as “Named Doctor for Safeguarding Children.”

He then goes on to say that the whistleblower tried to alert higher ups about this, including a director at the Tavistock gender clinic and Dr. Hillary Cass. Cass is the primary person behind the infamous Cass Review, a systematic review that has led to the temporary prohibition of puberty blockers for transgender youth in Great Britain. Details related to the whistleblower’s concerns aren’t apparent within the Review, suggesting that Cass ignored concerns as the Review was being drafted. Cass, who has no professional history working with transgender young people, collaborated with people who had ties to SPLC-designated hate groups like Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. During the writing of the Review, she met with Ron DeSantis-appointed members of the Florida medical board.

Maugham reached out to Tavistock and Cass for comment. Tavistock did not respond, while Cass referred Maugham to paragraph 5.65 in the Review, where she offhandedly discusses these suicides while underplaying the link between the NHS, Gender Identity Service (GIDS), and these deaths. Additionally, Cass fails to mention the total number of suicides in the Review from either before Bell or after. The second whistleblower claims to be able to substantiate the claims made by both the first whistleblower and the “Named Doctor for Safeguarding Children.” They claim that staff planned an open letter in response to these allegations, and that Tavistock retaliated and threatened them with disciplinary action before suppressing the material. Maugham then substantiates the allegations made by both whistleblowers by revealing meeting minutes that show Tavistock staff members were well aware of these deaths. He points out that this ignores attempted suicides and does not necessarily capture all deaths. Additionally, he shows additional notes that suggest that some data was deliberately left out of Freedom of Information Act requests.

[...] An investigation from The Guardian two years ago reveals that there are systemic failures in the United Kingdom’s mental health service which is attributable to many suicides, including some for transgender youth. Considering that several adults also died due to suicide while on waitlists, and that the majority of people on waitlists for gender affirming care have been there for more than 18 weeks, it’s possible that there are additional suicides unaccounted for This investigation, alongside the allegations made by Maugham, opens up substantial questions about how seriously medical professionals treat suicides of transgender youth. If Maugham’s allegations prove true, one of the country’s biggest medical scandals in history may unfold.

Mira Lazine writes in Erin Reed’s Erin In The Morning Substack about how the NHS in the UK covered up suicides of trans youths, especially after the Bell v. Tavistock ruling. The Cass Review ignored the impacts of suicide of trans youths as result of the post-Bell climate.

[miawashere]

act of 1844

passed in 1844 in britain, this was the first health and safety act passed in britain, according to parliament.uk. the act set working hours to 6 1/2 hours for children working, and made it a crime to have factory machines out in the open. this act was passed during the industrial revolution, when children working in factories was the norm.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Me: Okay, time to restock my safety razor blades on eBay UK!

Me: Wait...why can’t I find anything? Don’t tell me...

A thread on the forums:

Ah, lads, they’ve only gone and locisenced themselves.

I had to buy blades on Amazon. More expensive, more limited selection, even before shipping.