• Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    In which case the ruling, even if one was to accept it as a valid interpretation, let alone its effect on people involved, is arse backwards and has the potential to cause significant harm in the short term.

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      The Supreme Court doesn’t make the rules, it makes a determination on what the rules mean in context of the body of law. It’s not their fault that Parliament passed a badly worded law. It’s a positive step that the law has been clarified, and now the changes needed can be identified.

      • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Exactly.

        There are lots of people in this thread who aren’t familiar enough with how the UK system works (understandably, because it’s not a UK community). A lot of those people have jumped to the wrong conclusion.

        It makes me wonder how often I get the wrong end of the stick when it comes to US/international politics etc.

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          3 days ago

          I shamefully know more about US politics and justice systems than I do about the UK.

          It’s just everywhere, on every social platform.

      • Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 days ago

        I’m fully aware of how the system works, thank you very much for explaining at me. I’m saying the ruling itself is arse backwards and jumps to a lot of baseless and genuinely misogynistic conclusions. It is difficult to read it as an objective clarification on anything, let alone a positive one.