What Went On
The proceedings at the Supreme Court this week were a tough follow even if you could get the court’s abominably bad livestream to work. They’re all archived here now, but non-lawyers will probably glaze over quickly during the nine hours of intense legalese.
We’re not allowed to clip up any illustrative sections, on pain of possible contempt of court, so perhaps the best way to explain the key parts of what happened in a vaguely comprehensible way is by showing you some commentary from social media.
Please note that most of the people quoted below are lawyers and/or academics.
That seems to be the digest of it. The Scottish Government just spent goodness knows how much of your money sending KCs into the highest court in the land to argue the exact opposite of everything the Scottish Government has been strenously and angrily insisting in public for the last three years.
(That that’s what happened in court is that rarest of things, an interpretation of events which is agreed on by both transactivists and gender-critical feminists.)
Thus leaving their unfortunate counsel to have to present a case which is complete gibberish that even they can’t understand or explain without consulting a flowchart and taking an extended lunchbreak, but which they expect minimum-wage shopworkers and swimming-pool attendants to have complete command of at all times.
Five of the UK’s most senior judges will now spend several months trying to make some kind of sense out of it, and nobody knows what they’ll decide.
And that’s where we are now, readers.
