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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 May 2025
S6W-37189
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-36216 by Kaukab Stewart on 17 April 2025, and in light of the UK Supreme Court ruling regarding For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers, whether it will provide an update on whether it will ensure that, whenever sex is recorded, it is made clear whether this refers simply to sex,...
Official Report
Meeting date:
17 February 2026
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee 17 February 2026 [Draft]
That power allows the Scottish ministers to make remedial orders to remedy an incompatibility with convention rights.12:00The purpose of the proposed draft order is to address the judgment in X v Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland 2022 CSOH 78, which held that the tribunal’s lack of power to specify recorded matters for patients subject to a compulsion ord...
Committee reports
Date published:
6 March 2026
Report on the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 (Characteristic of Sex) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2026 [draft] - Consideration by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
It states that it is intended to achieve equivalence with the meaning of sex in the Equality Act 2010, as determined by the Supreme Court in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 October 2025
Contract (Formation and Remedies) (Scotland) Bill - Interpretation of contract
This was due, in part, to the developments stemming from the decision of Lord Hoffman in the English ICS case at the House of LordsiInvestors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society [1997] UKHL 28 which allowed courts a wider use of “context” to interpret legal documents.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 April 2025
Stage 1 report: Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill - Legal and human rights considerations
In a recent challenge – of R (Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice ([2014] UKSC 38) – a majority of judges declined to declare the law in England and Wales incompatible with Article 8 of the ECHR.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
29 April 2025
The UK Employment Rights Bill - What the Bill would do (Part 4 and schedule 6)
Clause 73 of the Bill would amend Part V (Industrial Action) of the 1992 Act to widen protections for workers from detriment as a result of taking industrial action.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 June 2022
Judicial Review - Key stages of a judicial review action
Edinburgh: W Green. but not intended to be an 'insurmountable barrier'.2Wightman v The Advocate General [ 2018 ] CSIH 18 2018 S.C. 388; 2018 S.L.T. 356; 2018 S.C.L.R. 588; [2018] 3 WLUK 461; 2018 G.W.D. 11-129 [2018] C.L.Y. 2736. (2018, March 20).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
15 October 2021
COVID-19 and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans (LGBT+) Life in Scotland - What do we already know about COVID-19 and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans (LGBT+) life internationally?
In outlining the lack of protection and increased harm to LGBT+ people, Banerjee and Nair state that ‘the COVID-19 pandemic might be yet another global eye-opener to include them in the public health system, protect them from the viral crisis, and improve their quality of life, before it is too late’. 2Banerjee, D., & Nair, V. (2020). “The Untold S...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
11 March 2020
Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Bill - Balancing human rights
However, a right to protection of reputation has been found by the European Court of Human Rights to be part of the right to respect for private life1Pfeifer v Austria. (2007). Application no. 12556/03.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
13 January 2020
Access to EU funding as a third country - Future ETC programmes and UK participation
uri=COM%3A2018%3A374%3AFIN</a> [accessed 3 December 2019] It was reported in a briefing in January 2019 that the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development had proposed an increase in the ETC budget to €11.16 billion (in 2018 prices). 3Halleux, V. (2019, January). European territorial cooperation (Interreg)2021-2027.
