Law News

Island State Introduces Marriage Equality

Posted on 29 Nov 2023 in Law

The Peter Tatchell Foundation for Human Rights reports that the Supreme Court of the State of Mauritius has legalised same sex relationships, after the Supreme Court ruled that the country’s ban on same-sex intimacy was ‘discriminatory’ and ‘unconstitutional’. The case was brought by Abdool Ridwan Firaas Ah Seek, the president of the local LGBT+ organisation Collectif Arc-en-Ciel, with support from the Human Dignity Trust in London. Abdool sought to challenge the constitutionality of Section 250 of the Mauritian Criminal Code, a colonia

Prosecution Kicks off the Brianna Evidence

Posted on 27 Nov 2023 in Law

The Court Case of a pair of teenagers accused of murdering the sixteen year old transgender woman Brianna Ghey last February, has thrown a sharp light on transphobia, homophobia and the warped mentality of teens accessing the hate filled dark web. The case is ongoing at Manchester Crown Court.

Groups United to Fight Oppressive Laws

Posted on 25 Nov 2023 in Law

The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, Out Memphis LGBT Group and the State's Transgender Law Centre have joined forces to launch legal proceedings against the state, which already has a reputation as the most legitislatively homophobic

Pepper Spray Horror on Autistic Girl

Posted on 25 Nov 2023 in Law

The Independent newspaper says that a police officer is under investigation for being over zealous with pepper spraying members of the public after a street disturbance in Leeds, appears to be the same woman investigated after an August incident where she misinterpreted an autist

Transphobic Slurs May Be Legal Defamation

Posted on 10 Oct 2023 in Law

Pink News reports that activists are urging actor David Tennant, best known for his work in the drama serials "Casanova" and "Doctor Who" to consider taking legal action against anti-gay and anti-transgender extremist Kellie Jay Keen Minshull, w

Sep

Judge Rules in Favour of Pride Event Goahead

Our Gay Life Facebook group links to the Huffington Post Queer Voices page, which reports that "A Federal Judge in Nashville, Tennessee, ruled Friday that law enfo

Sep

Questions Raised over Gaol Term for Extremist

The Independent Newspaper reports that a former prison officer at Leeds Prison is himself behind bars at the start of a thirteen year term for recruiting white young men to his Neo

Aug

Calls for Freedom for Sarah Jane Baker

The left wing group Alliance for Workers Liberty, in its newspaper Solidarity, calls for the release of Sarah Jane Baker, a trans activist who mad

Aug

Analysis of Shameful Imprisonment of Woman

Agnes Sampson writes for the Trotskyist monthly newspaper Workers Power on Carla Foster, who was imprisoned for twenty eight months in prison for giving herself a

Jul

Cosmo Looks at CisHet Men and Power in Rape

Despite the lies pedalled by right wing pseudo-feminists and the Daily Mail, the threat of abuse to women comes primarily from cisgender heterosexual men. This month, the Cosmopolitan