Lawyers criticize Maggie Chapman’s comments on the decision of the Supreme Court

The dean of the Faculty of the defenders criticized the MSP Green MSP Maggie Chapman for what he described as “reprehensible” comments attacking the judiciary following the judgment of the Supreme Court on the definition of a woman.

Ms. Chapman – The assistant manager of the Holyrood equality committee – was filmed during a weekend rally condemning what she called “fanaticism, prejudices and hatred from the Supreme Court”.

In a letter to the committee, Roddy Dunlop KC qualified the remarks as “scandalous” and said that he had created a “risk of danger” for members of the Supreme Court.

Chapman said that she supported her comments and that it was her role to “get up and represent trans people”.

The Scottish government responded to Parliament to the unanimous decision according to which a woman is defined by biological sex under equality law.

The Scottish Secretary on Social Justice, Shirley-Anne Somerville, said that the Supreme Court had made “judgment carefully considered” that ministers “accept fully”.

Before this statement, Sir Keir Starmer’s official spokesperson said the Prime Minister did not think that transgender women are women.

Demonstrations took place on the weekend by pro-Trans activists, Prime Minister John Swinney saying that he understood why the Trans community would be “uncertain and anxious” to the court’s decision.

Chapman – A longtime supporter of Trans Rights – attended a demonstration in Aberdeen and told the crowd: “We do not say in our name to fanaticism, prejudices and hatred that we see from the Supreme Court and from so many other institutions of our society.”

Roddy Dunlop KC said that the comments were “beyond the pale” and that Chapman should consider his role as deputy commanditis that his remarks were in conflict with the advice of the Scottish Parliament on impartiality.

Dunlop, writing on behalf of all the office carriers of the director organization, declared that his comments “do not respect the rule of law” and “constitute a blatant violation of the duties of Mrs. Chapman to maintain the continuous independence of the judiciary”.

He added: “But they go further than that and create a risk of danger for the members of the court themselves.

“This behavior is irresponsible and reprehensible.”

He added that he expected “rapid and complete” excuses from the MSP.

Alba MSP ASH REGAN said that she had reported Chapman to the President and the Committee of Standards, adding: “MSPs have the duty to respect the law, not to undermine it.”

Speaking on Tuesday morning, Chapman said that she would not apologize and that institutions and laws reflected transphobia and prejudices present in society.

She also declared that the rule of law “always stands”, but that it was her role of “getting up and representing trans people”.

Last Wednesday’s decision was the culmination of a long -standing legal dispute between the Scottish government and the campaign group for women in Scotland regarding the question of whether sexual protections should only apply to people born.

In a statement in Parliament, Somerville said that the Scottish government would modify the directives linked to the legislation which had aroused the judgment of the Supreme Court, which was designed to bring more women to the public sector commissions.

Somerville told MSPS that the ministers would meet later in the week with the EHRC, which should publish advice updated by the summer.

The Minister said that the government would promote the rule of law as well as “equality, inclusion and human rights for all”.

Scottish conservative chief Russell Findlay said ministers should apologize to Scotland women.

He said: “The harmful ideology of SNP must now be rooted in our public sector.

“Too much time and taxpayers’ money was wasted on this nonsense.”

The vice-minister Kate Forbes, who was opposed to the Scottish government, plans to allow trans people more easily obtained a certificate of recognition between the sexes, BBC Scotland News told BBC that she did not feel justified by the court’s decision but that she had given “legal clarity”.

Trans activists have expressed their concern that the decision would erase the protections they have against discrimination in their reassigned sex.

Before Holyrood’s statement, the Prime Minister spokesman was asked if Sir Keir still thought that a transgender woman was a woman, as he said before.

The spokesman replied: “No, the judgment of the Supreme Court clearly indicated that by looking at the equality law, a woman is a biological woman.”

Bridget Philipson, the British government’s Minister of Equalities, told BBC’s TODAY program that Trans women had to use the toilet according to their biological gender.

But it stopped unless you say explicitly that trans women should use men’s toilets.

She also said that new councils from the Equal and Human Rights Commission would be issued, including a statutory code of practice.

Philipson said that this would guarantee that “everyone has the possibility of accessing safe and appropriate services”.

The Scottish government has argued before the courts that transgender persons with a certificate of recognition between the sexes (RCMP) are entitled to the same -sex protections as biological women under the 2010 equality law.

The judges ruled unanimously that the terms woman and sex in the 2010 equality law “refer to a biological woman and the biological sex” rather than “certified sex”.

Michael Foran, professor in law at the University of Glasgow, told the BBC that the decision “has deep implications for trans inclusion in these spaces”.

He added the debate surrounding the decision had been muddy by disinformation and “delegitimate attempts” the Supreme Court.

He added: “It is the responsibility of the government to clearly communicate what this judgment does and does not say, and to fight against this disinformation.”