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The High Court recently declined to lift a stay of the hearing of an application for the enforcement, under the Arbitration Act 1996, of certain arbitral awards and a related jurisdictional objection by the respondent (Russia) on grounds of sovereign immunity. Among other things, a court's powers under the Arbitration Act to order an adjournment of proceedings and the payment of security are not applicable where there is an unresolved state immunity challenge under the State Immunity Act. ....
Ann Sinnott has resigned from her role as director of anti-trans charity LGB Alliance. (AnnMSinnott/twitter) Former Labour councillor Ann Sinnott has resigned from her role as a director of anti-trans charity the LGB Alliance. Sinnott, a heterosexual woman who is one of the four founders of LGB Alliance, resigned on the same day that LGBT+ charities united to appeal against the Charity Commission’s decision to register the LGB Alliance as a charity. Sinnott, 71, quit Cambridge council in 2018 because it brought its policy in line with the Equality Act 2010 to make it clear that trans women should use women’s bathrooms. ....
The Royal Courts of Justice where the High Court is located in London. (Getty/ BEN STANSALL/AFP) A judge has refused permission for a judicial review of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s guidance on the Equality Act 2010. Throwing out the attempted judicial review today, Mr Justice Henshaw, sitting in London’s High Court, said the case was “unarguable” and that its interpretation of the Equality Act 2010 is “wrong in law”. The failed judicial review was sought by LGB Alliance co-founder Ann Sinnott, who crowdfunded more than £96,000 in legal fees. It concerned the EHRC’s guidance on the single-sex exemptions in the Equality Act 2010, which allow women’s single-sex spaces, like prisons or refuges, to only exclude trans women in certain, specific circumstances. ....
Passengers wearing protective clothing are seen at Heathrow Airport on May 22, 2020. Reuters LONDON: Two High Court judges ordered the British government to improve hotel quarantine services in response to a petition for interim relief filed by a lawyer representing a British family of Pakistani origin. Barrister Zahab Jamali filed the petition on behalf of a family of five that had returned from Pakistan earlier this month and had to follow a mandatory, 10-day hotel quarantine for travellers returning from ‘red-list’ countries. Mr Jamali said the family at the Holiday Inn Express T4 Heathrow were served pork, not given food on time and did not have their towels and bed linen changed. ....