Good Law Project Loses in Bid Against EHRC
It’s got to be a tough week for someone who finds it “really hard losing cases”. The Good Law Project and Stonewall’s two-year campaign against the Equality and Human Rights Commission has ended in dismal failure. The EHRC in 2022 called for more “detailed consideration” from the SNP when it attempted to make it drastically easier to legally switch genders, something that Jolyon’s outfit insisted made it a “cheerleader for the Government rather than an independent monitor.” The Good Try Project went about doing its magic, as always…
Stonewall and the GLP forced a review of the EHRC’s status by the UN-run Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) to try to remove its “A rating”, which allows it to formally interact with the UN Human Rights Council and its committees on human rights. Now the review is complete and the EHRC has been confirmed again as a “high-performing, independent National Human Rights Institutions”. Now that’s done the Good Law Project can go back to funding the government in endless legal costs…
