Supreme Court

Protestors take part in the Let Women Speak rally following the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act coming into force, outside The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh on Saturday, April 6, 2024. (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Police Scotland 'risks alienating women' with stance on sex and gender

Glasgow’s Rogano restaurant.

Glasgow’s Rogano owner loses Supreme Court battle with landlord

First Minister Alex Salmond and independence supporters before the 2014 referendum (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Scottish independence gets ever closer

Buses run along Princes Street in Edinburgh as it reopens following a fire at the old Debenhams store building in early July (Picture: Neil Pooran/PA Wire)

Readers' Letters: Water isn't the best way to fight historic building blazes

Alex Salmond

Watchdog to appeal to Supreme Court in case linked to Salmond files

Exclusive Council launches probe into chestfeeding group 'safeguarding concerns'

JK Rowling

Amnesty 'regrets' calling Rowling's rape support centre 'anti-rights'

JK Rowling

JK Rowling's rape support centre labelled 'anti-rights' by Amnesty

Co-directors of For Women Scotland Susan Smith, Marion Calder and Trina Budge (left to right) outside Parliament House in Edinburgh, ahead of the start of a judicial review hearing over the Scottish Prison Service's policy for management of transgender inmates

SNP ministers lose court battle over trans prisoners in female jails

Protesters outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh call on the government to enforce the Supreme Court ruling on gender in September 2025

'Awkward' adolescence and alarming push for 'conversion therapy' bill Jenny Lindsay

Rogano: Parties settle - but Supreme Court continues to hear the case

Justices of the Supreme Court Lady Simler, Lord Stephens, Lord Reed, Lord Doherty, and Lady Rose sat for the first time in Glasgow's Burgh Court Hall on Monday. Picture: John Devlin/The Scotsman

Analysis Taxing affair as Supreme Court makes history in Glasgow

UK Supreme Court will sit in the Burgh Court Hall of Glasgow City

Joanna Cherry says she became ‘absolutely disgusted’ with the SNP

Joanna Cherry quits SNP after becoming 'ashamed of being a member'

Members of the public take part in a Let Women Speak protest

Exclusive Council 'flouting law' as trans women use female-only support service

Jackdaw is 150 miles off the coast of Aberdeen

Energy experts call for Jackdaw North Sea gas field to be approved

Co-directors of For Women Scotland Susan Smith, Marion Calder and Trina Budge (left to right) outside Parliament House in Edinburgh, ahead of the start of a judicial review hearing over the Scottish Prison Service's policy for management of transgender inmates

Trans prison policy 'could see men seek move to nicer women's jails'

For Women Scotland are taking legal action against the Scottish Government over trans prisons guidance

Trans prison ban would violate human rights, says Scottish Government

Susan Smith (left) and Marion Calder, co-directors of For Women Scotland, celebrated after the Supreme Court's April.

SNP ministers challenging Supreme Court verdict on gender

Susan Smith (left) and Marion Calder, co-directors of For Women Scotland, celebrated after the Supreme Court's April ruling that the terms 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex (Picture: Lucy North/PA)

Readers' Letters: Single sex space ruling could cost us all dearly

A private members bill to make paying for sex a crime in Scotland has been proposed - but the Scottish Government said there were “significant concerns” about the impact of the planned legislatio.n (pic by National World).

For Women Scotland: No government support for sex crime law 'shameful'

Ash Regan

Ash Regan faces exclusion from Holyrood for two days over rule breach

'I could say Sandie Peggie judge Kemp was an idiot - but that would be illegal' Euan McColm

Protest outside Girlguiding HQ over new policy to exclude trans girls

Nurse Sandie Peggie, centre, with niece Rachel Walker, left, mother Sheila Bell, second left, husband Darren Peggie, second right, and daughter Nicole Peggie, right, after a press conference at the Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa in Dundee after she won a claim for harassment in her employment tribunal case against a health board, but other allegations of discrimination were dismissed

Nurse Sandie Peggie set to appeal tribunal decision

Maria Kelly took Leonardo UK to court

Leonardo engineer to appeal after losing case over single-sex toilets

Scottish First Minister John Swinney during FMQs at the Scottish Parliament building yesterday (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Why would any biological woman vote for the SNP?

Sandie Peggie outside the Scottish Parliament

SNP ministers 'in denial' over court ruling, says Sandie Peggie lawyer

John Swinney can't seem to find the time to meet with campaigners from the For Women Scotland group (Picture: Jane Barlow/pool)

How Swinney is wasting even more taxpayers' money on gender wars Jackie Baillie

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC

Chief prosecutor reassures victims of sex abuse after Court judgment

The Supreme Court said Scottish courts should ‘modify’ their approach to the admission of evidence in sexual offence trials. Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Use of rape shield laws may risk right to fair trials, court warns

The British coat of arms on the outside of the Supreme Court in central London.

Supreme Court rules sex trial evidence rules could breach human rights

Will John Swinney die on the same hill as Nicola Sturgeon Euan McColm

Judges unanimously ruled in April that a woman is defined by biological sex under equality laws, sparking protests from trans rights campaigners

Exclusive Trans 'racism' comparison sparked internal Scottish Government row

Steven Smart, Partner, Horwich Farrelly

Clarity on what triggers requirements for an appeal is welcome

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth

‘No Debate’ mantra allowed basic truth to become unsayable in schools Jenny Lindsay

Jenny Gilruth Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills meets pupils receiving exam results at King's Park Secondary School

SNP's Jenny Gilruth won't say if males can use girls' school toilets

People demonstrate outside the Scottish Parliament earlier this month, calling for the Scottish Government to implement the Supreme Court ruling on gender (Picture: Jane Barlow)

Government guidance on school toilets "muddled" and "still unlawful"

SNP politician's 'Groundhog Day' comment on gender wars speaks for so many Jenny Lindsay

A number of changes at schools have been proposed following the Supreme Court’s judgement that, for the purposes of the Equality Act, the term ‘sex’ refers to a person’s sex at birth only.

Edinburgh schools must 'comply with the law' over single-sex toilets

Conversion practices against transgender and other people are harmful and do not work (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

Warning over trans discrimination as human rights compliance raised

New and secondhand cars for sale on a dealership forecourt in Ellesmere Port in 2023 (Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Supreme Court blocks car finance payouts for millions

People taking part in a trans rights demonstration in Edinburgh in 2023

Good Law Project given go ahead to challenge single-sex guidance

The campaign group For Women Scotland celebrates outside the Supreme Court in April

Gender guidance 'may lead to discrimination', says Scottish Government

Maggie Chapman

Row breaks out over Green selection contest as key figure quits

Maggie Chapman

MSP who called Supreme Court 'bigoted' faces ousting from Holyrood

Nurse Sandie Peggie with her Solicitor Margaret Gribbon. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Analysis ‘We are all Sandy Peggie’ banners, a press scrum and a landmark case

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