Hello everyone and welcome. My name's Catherine Barnard. I'm Professor of European Union Law and

Employment Law here at the University of Cambridge. I'm very pleased to welcome all of you who are

kindly joining us online to discuss this very important decision of the Supreme Court for Women's

Scotland and the Scottish Ministers.

I've got huge pleasure to introduce you to you our two speakers.

First, Aidan O'Neill, Casey, who appeared and represented for Women's Scotland,

who's going to go first and is going to talk a bit about the background to the case and the arguments that led to the ultimate success for his clients.

He will speak for about 20 minutes and will be followed by Lena Holzer, one of our excellent

colleagues here in the law, faculty who's assistant professor in gender, race and the law.

And she is going to also speak for about 15, 20 minutes.

That will leave time for questions at the end.

Please, if you've got questions, could you put them in the Q&A?

And I will try and get through as many of the questions as possible.

Apologies if I don't get to yours.

But what I would like to do now, just before Aiden starts to speak,

my colleague Dan Bates, who's very kindly helped with the number of aspects of this, is going to put up

Aiden's speaking note in the chat, I think, so that you can see where Aiden is going in his talk.

Aidan, the floor is yours, and thank you very much indeed for your time.

Thanks very much, Catherine, and thanks to everybody who joined us in this.

As Catherine said, this is an academic seminar, and I'm not an academic.

So slightly fish out of water for me. But I thought it might be quite interesting

for those of you who are academics and are teaching law students to get the, as it were,

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