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Rick Thomas is CMF Public Policy Researcher
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Committee on Justice, Irish Government: Dying with Dignity Bill 2020 (29/01/2021)
The committee on Justice invited responses to this Private Members Bill that seeks to legalise assisted suicide on the island of Ireland. CMF has responded and the full text can...
Scottish Parliament – Call for Evidence: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on equalities and human rights (01/01/2021)
Evidence suggests that the effects of COVID-19 have exacerbated inequalities that were already present. Those living in poverty and with poverty- or poor housing-related co-morbidities, the unemployed, those on zero-hour...
Ministry of Justice: Law Commission Consultation on Proposals to revise legislation governing Hate Crimes/Hate Speech (24/12/2020)
We welcome the intent to bring clarity and coherence to the laws relating to hate crime and hate speech and applaud the Law Commission for their work in this regard.In...
Submission to UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights - Legislative Scrutiny: Health Service Safety Investigations Bill (23/12/2020)
The decision-making process for initiating and withdrawing clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) treatment in patients who lack capacity to give consent has changed dramatically over the last 30 years...
UK Parliament Women and Equalities Committee - Reform of the Gender Recognition Act (27/11/2020)
Currently, under the Gender Recognition Act 2004, in order to legally change gender a person needs to be over 18, have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria by a medical practitioner,...
Scottish Government: Consultation on Future Arrangements for Early Medical Abortion at Home (25/11/2020)
The Scottish Government is considering whether the current provision for early medical abortions at home, that were introduced during the first lockdown, should be made permanent even after there is...
Submission on Section 9 of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act 2019 on the introduction of regulations to govern the provision of abortion services in NI (27/05/2020)
Section 9 of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act 2019, introduced by the Westminster Parliament whilst the Northern Ireland (NI) Assembly was suspended, instructed the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) to...
DHSC consultation on storage times for frozen embryos and gametes (27/05/2020)
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (amended in 2008), sets the storage period for embryos and gametes stored for fertility treatment at a maximum of 10 years. The Act...
Consultation by the Scottish Government on reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (28/02/2020)
The Scottish Government is consulting on a plan to make the existing process to obtain legal recognition under the Gender Recognition Act 2004 a better service for those trans and...
A New Legal Framework for Abortion Services in Northern Ireland (17/12/2019)
Under the terms of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act 2019, recently passed by the Parliament, and in the continuing absence of a sitting Assembly in Belfast, the UK Government...