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Here we be again my good blog denizens. Have a safe holiday season. Warm wishes.
A conversation on the one of the more malignant aspects of the current social zeitgeist.
JCJ on the recent legal travesty against Maya Forstater and her rights in the UK.
So, before JK charged in to raise our spirits, I sat down, Thursday morning, and in an effort to not stick my head in the toilet, decided to go through Maya’s judgement and break down the central conceptual moves and mistakes with a fine-tooth comb. It’s an absolute mess and dissecting the full form of the mess got a little bit (ahem) out of control. Still, #IStandWithMaya, and this is a core part of my beat, so, here we go….
Introduction
The judgement functions by applying what’s known as the ‘Grainger criteria’ (see Grainger plc v Nicholson, 2010) to establish whether a philosophical belief constitutes something worthy of protection. The criteria stipulates that the belief must be a) genuinely held, b) a belief and not an opinion, c) based on present available information and a weighty or substantial aspect of human life and behaviour d) have a level of…
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