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A hospital ward

New NHS guidance confirms exclusion of trans women patients from female wards

A polling station being set up in Moscow

Russia votes in wartime parliamentary election set to secure the Kremlin’s power

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Commissioner takes FOI appeal rejection over Salmond case files to Supreme Court

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Japan executes man convicted over fire that killed five at pachinko parlour

Public toilets

Single-sex spaces code comes in force more than year after Supreme Court ruling

Single-sex spaces code comes in force more than year after Supreme Court ruling

A protester outside the High Court

Palestine Action terror ban challenge to go to Supreme Court as 117 arrested

Girlguiding uniform

Girlguides can ‘express themselves’ with uniform’s first redesign in 36 years

Donald Trump

Trump defends ‘slave labour’ import tariff against UK amid court challenge

SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won

Chairman of South Korean tech giant ordered to pay ex-wife £485m in divorce case

Toilet sign indicating a gender-neutral restroom

Changes to thousands of toilets under single-sex spaces code, estimates suggest

Billionaire Michael Platt’s BlueCrest Capital Management has said the UK is “no longer a serious contender” as a place to do business after losing a £200 million legal battle against the UK tax authorities (Aaron Chown/PA)

BlueCrest says UK no longer a serious place to do business after court loss

Trump

Supreme Court rejects Donald Trump’s push to throw out verdict in sex abuse case

A prison guard on patrol in Barlinnie

Scottish ministers will not appeal court ruling on trans prisoners, Swinney says

Susan Smith and other For Women Scotland campaigners outside the Supreme Court

Housing trans inmates in women’s jails ‘unlawful’, judge rules

Mary-Ann Stephenson

Equalities watchdog chairwoman urges ‘common sense’ policy on single-sex spaces

Toilet sign indicating a gender-neutral restroom

Trans people still protected, says Phillipson as single-sex spaces guidance laid
The code of practice has been updated in full for the first time since 2011.
Aine Fox, Press Association Social Affairs Correspondent

Plus I transitioned decades ago. Now I fear being forced into men’s spaces. Louise, pseudonym

An ASOS delivery package resting on the floor along with letters received in the mail.

Asos looks to reclaim £7 million in US tariffs

Microsoft’s new offices at South County Business Park in Leopardstown, South Dublin

Microsoft being sued for £1.7 billion over ‘abusing position’ in cloud computing

A woman driving.

City watchdog faces legal action over £9.1bn car finance compensation scheme

Benjamin Field

Ex-church warden’s murder conviction quashed at Court of Appeal

2010 Equality Act legal case

Campaigners quietly confident single-sex spaces guidance not watered down

Plus Girlguiding to exclude trans girls - as a mum that’s hard to accept Emma Walker

Girlguiding tells trans girls they must leave by early September

Bill Cosby found guilty of 1972 sexual assault as woman awarded 19m dollars

Distinguished legal figures to gather in Shropshire for Magna Carta talk

Donald Trump says countries are ‘happy’ with tariffs as he vows to keep them
The US president delivered his State of the Union address after latest trade tariffs came into effect on UK imports at 10% on Tuesday.
Rob Freeman, Press Association

Donald Trump’s new global tariffs come into effect at lower-than-feared 10%

US global tariffs will rise to 15%, Donald Trump says

Trump announces new 10% ‘global tariff’ after Supreme Court strikes down levies

Trump lashes out at Supreme Court tariffs ruling

Supreme Court ruling does not signal the end for Trump’s tariffs, experts warn

Mary Arden, Lady Arden of Heswall, former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. A judicial pioneer who will deliver a Magna Carta lecture at Soulton Hall.

Distinguished legal figures to gather in Shropshire for Magna Carta talk

Expert who led gender healthcare review says ‘children have been weaponised’

Schools gender guidance step forward but cannot be completely foolproof – Cass

Trump condemned for revoking scientific finding on climate change

Oat-based products cannot be trademarked as ‘milk’, Supreme Court rules

Scottish Government bill for gender court case totals over £760,000

Ban on trans inmates in women’s jails would be ‘fundamental denial’, court told

No automatic breach of rights from trans women in female prisons, court told

Women prisoners treated as ‘pawns for political gain’, court hears

RE provision in NI to be reviewed but ‘Christianity will remain central’ – Givan

Oswestry organisation creates free resource pack to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Mon...

Hearing on transgender prisoners to start in Edinburgh

G Sabini-Roberts, co-founder of Rainbow Wise

Oswestry organisation creates free resource pack to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Mon...

Almost nine out of 10 back trans-inclusive swimming at ponds, consultation finds

Blanket ruling on trans prisoners would ‘violate rights’ – Scottish Government

Ex-prison governor says there are ‘no women’s prisons in Scotland’

NHS says it ‘absolutely recognises need’ for revised single-sex spaces guidance

Tribunal nurse Sandie Peggie ‘has been through hell’, Kemi Badenoch says

European court presses UK over revoking Shamima Begum’s citizenship

‘Gender recognition certificates still important despite Supreme Court ruling’

Campaigner fears ministers ‘trying to run us out of cash’ after gender ruling

Government to ‘consider’ ruling in response to calls to name Stakeknife

Trans row tribunal judgment errors are ‘absolutely scandalous’, says JK Rowling

Peggie judgment did not take gender ruling into account properly, says academic

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