Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says

Speaking at book festival in east Sussex, former supreme court president says reaction to judgment very binary'

The supreme court's ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex has been misinterpreted", Lady Hale has said.

Speaking at the Charleston literary festival in east Sussex, the first female president of the supreme court said the last thing she wants now that she has retired is to undermine the court and its authority by being critical of its decisions".