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For Women Scotland -v- The Scottish Ministers: The Seven Red Flags for Employers - Peter Daly

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  By Peter Daly - Partner at Doyle Clyton  For Women Scotland -v- The Scottish Ministers: The Seven Red Flags for Employers So much excellent material has already been written about the FWS judgment.  As well as the pieces I highlighted previously by Julie Bindel ( link ), Kathleen Stock ( link ) and Susannah Rustin ( link ), I would also add the articles by Janice Turner ( link ), Akua Reindorf KC ( link ), Elizabeth McGlone ( link ), Sonia Sodha ( link ), Denis Kavanagh ( link ) and of course Dr Michael Foran ( link ) whose academic work was relied upon by the Supreme Court in reaching its judgment.  There's also an incredibly helpful and detailed (almost paragraph by paragraph) commentary on the judgment here by the Legal Feminist collective. Rather than consider “how did we get here?”, I wanted instead to look at “where do we go now?”.  More specifically, I want to look at the implications for employers, and deal with the question of what organisations...