Baronness Helena Kennedy will lead the group (John Phillips/PA)
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Legal, gender and human-rights experts have been appointed to a working group to consider whether misogynistic behaviour should become an offence under Scots law.
The Scottish Government’s Hate Crime Bill would allow misogynistic harassment to become a standalone offence while also adding age prejudice to existing aggravating factors.
Human-rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy has been asked to lead a taskforce that will examine the case for making misogyny an offence.
The Scottish Government has released details of a taskforce created to consider whether misogynistic behaviour should be a standalone offence under Scots law. Legal, gender and human-rights experts are among those appointed to the group, including human-rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy, lawyer and former criminal investigator Susan Kem and Mona Rishmawi, head of the rule of law, equality and non-discrimination branch in the United Nations human rights commissioner s office. The Scottish Government’s Hate Crime Bill would allow misogynistic harassment to become a standalone offence, also adding age prejudice to existing aggravating factors. Baroness Helena Kennedy will lead the taskforce that will is due to have its first meeting later this month, with the aim of producing a report for the government on its findings from evidence sessions over the next 12 months.
Legal, gender and human-rights experts have been appointed to a working group to consider whether misogynistic behaviour should become an offence under Scots law.
The Scottish Government s Hate Crime Bill would allow misogynistic harassment to become a standalone offence while also adding age prejudice to existing aggravating factors.
Human-rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy has been asked to lead a taskforce that will examine the case for making misogyny an offence.
Members of the group have now been appointed ahead of its first meeting later this month.
Human-rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy has been asked to lead a taskforce that will examine the case for making misogyny an offence as part of the Scottish Government s Hate Crime Bill