Good Law Project

And so the rights to the transgender person could have been reflected and respected by providing an alternative space.

So the final case that I want to talk to you about, and then we'll finish up, is the case of the Good Law Project and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

So this was a judicial review that was brought to the High Court.

And the importance for this is that the High Court sets precedent, binding precedent on lower courts.

The employment tribunal cases I've just spoken to you about only bind the parties before them, although they might give an indication of where the law is.

This case, because it was in the High Court, does bind lower courts, including employment tribunals.

And in this case, what we had was a challenge from the Good Law Project against the lawfulness of the Acquainted Human Rights Commission's interim update, which set out its view of the law in relation to single-sex spaces following the Four Women Scotland decision.

Good Law Project argued that this interim update was unlawful, it got the law wrong.

You just get to a point whereby we know that this is racially motivated.

The Good Law Project, I know, are doing so much on social media.

As a community, we are doing a lot too.

We are keeping, you know, his name in the forefront of conversations.

This was spearheaded by both white and black progressive commentators.

The Good Law Project also put out a statement to defend Jason Arday against the racism of the media.

Stand in solidarity with Jason Arday.

Right-wing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations.

A significant element in that harassment was the color of his skin.

Self-regulation of the press has comprehensively failed.

Here's Jolyon Mom, the barrister who founded the Good Law Project, repeating the accusation that the press is basically guilty of murder and saying people should support his petition to regulate the press.

There is a massive effort in the media at the moment to deflect blame away from them for what Kehinde Andrews has described as a public lynching of our friend Professor Arday.

Instead, it became further inflamed.

The Good Law Project, without pausing for a minute, published a new open letter calling for a public inquiry and press regulation... arguing that, quote, there cannot be any doubt that racism lay at the heart of this story.

Organizations such as Amnesty International.

That's just true.

Over 90,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into the media's handling of the accusations.

Many on the left, such as Kehinde Andrews and the Good Law Project, argued that Arday had been lynched by a racist press hell-bent on destroying a successful black academic.

But journalists and critics pushed back.

The Guardian defended its reporting, arguing it was right to expose the truth.