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James Caspian, a psychotherapist who was stopped from studying “trans regret” as part of his master’s degree is taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights
Caspian wanted to write his thesis on “trans regret” and “detransition” as part of his MA degree in counselling and psychotherapy at Bath Spa University.
He said it was rejected by the university’s ethics committee in 2017 because it could be deemed “politically incorrect”, and because “attacks on social media may not be confined to the researcher but may involve the university”.
Bath Spa University told
PinkNews that James Caspian’s research proposal was not refused because of the subject matter, but “rather because of his proposed methodological approach”.
Actress Seyi Omooba | Christian Legal Centre
A Christian actress in the U.K. who was fired from a theater production over an allegedly homophobic Facebook post had her discrimination case heard before the Central London Employment Tribunal on Monday.
Seyi Omooba filed a lawsuit with the employment tribunal seeking $174,618 (£128,000) against Curve Theatre in Leicester and her former agents for religious discrimination and breach of contract after she was fired from the leading role of Celie in a 2019 stage production of Alice Walker s The Color Purple, according to multiplereports.
The 26-year-old devout Christian actress was reportedly offered on an unconditional basis the full payment of her contract, the theater told the Central London Employment Tribunal in a virtual hearing.
A devout Christian actress is suing a theatre and her agents for £128,000 after she was dropped following an alleged homophobic post on Facebook.
Seyi Omooba, 25, is claiming claiming religious discrimination and a breach of contract against the Leicester Curve Theatre and her former managers Global Artists Agency.
She was appealing virtually at a Central London Employment Tribunal represented by the Christian Legal Centre.
It follows her firing from the adaptation of the Alice Walker novel, The Colour Purple, just a day after she was cast as the lead character of Celie in 2019.
It came after another actor challenged her over a 2014 Facebook post where she said she did not believe homosexuality is right .
Derriford staff praised in hospital s tribute to Plymouth dad after Poland controversy
The Plymouth dad, originally from Poland, had been critically ill at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth after suffering a heart attack in November
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Z v University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust & Ors [2020] EWCOP 69
A decision by Mr Justice Cohen in the Court of Protection, which reiterated his previous decision to end life sustaining treatment for RS, an unconscious man in a vegetative state. This application had been brought by RS’s estranged birth family, who argued that RS would wish to be kept alive based on his Catholic faith and who sought to move him to Poland.
Background
RS is a middle-aged Polish man who, after suffering a cardiac arrest on 6 November 2020, has at best a 10-20% chance of progressing to the lowest end of a minimally conscious state (called MCS-minus). At that state, he might have been able to acknowledge the presence of a human being, but without being able to demonstrate knowing who they were. Prior to an application by the hospital responsible for RS s care – University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust – to the Court of Protection for permission to discontinue his life-sustaining treatment, RS was