#50swomen

This week Salford City Radio hosted a special broadcast on the continuing plight of 50swomen and gave interviews to myself and Dr Jocelynne Scutt. Jocelynne also took a petition and letter to Downing Street yesterday calling for the government to implement in line with the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Discrimination against Women and Girls which has still not been fully introduced by…

Judge Jonathan Swift There was an unusual procedure in the courts in the long battle between the Department of Work and Pensions and WASPI last week. The issue was whether WASPI’s legal costs would be capped in their application for a judicial review over the government’s decision not to award compensation for partial maladministration for 50s women who faced a six year delay in getting their…

From right to left Jocelynne Scutt, former Australian judge; Ian Byrne, Labour MP for Liverpool,West Derby and myself a journalist and a patron of CEDAWinLAW. Waspi threaten further legal action and another judicial review The present impasse over whether 50swomen should receive any compensation at all after ministers refused to pay must cease. WASPI who relied on the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s…

Jocelynne Scutt The All Party Parliamentary Group on 50swomen pensions finally heard from CEDAWinLaw about what they want to see the Government do about responding to compensation for the 50s women deprived of their pensions for six years. Until this month the only organisation allowed to approach the group were WASPI and their lobbyists Higgerson Strategy. The meeting was in private. An…

If pensioners die from winter cold should their gravestones be engraved with the words ” Frozen to Death by Rachel Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer ” for eternity? This is the recording of my interview last night with Ian Rothwell of Salford City Radio on the failure of the government to agree yet to any compensation for the women born in the 1950s who had to wait six more years to get their pension…

Delegation at No 10. (L to R) Ioan Bellin (Senior Communications and Research Officer for Delyth Jewell MS Senedd Wales);Vivienne Porritt OBE – WomenEd;Janice Chapman (CEDAWinLAW Volunteer):Michaela Hawkins (CEDAWinLAW Volunteer) and Ian Byrne, MP. A delegation including Liverpool Mp Ian Byrne and former Australian judge Jocelynne Scutt yesterday increased pressure on Sir Keir Starmer, to start…

Table compiled by CEDAWinLAW The Green Party emerge at last moment as offering one of the better deals The need to pay 3.5 million 50swomen compensation or restitution for their delayed pensions has hardly been a keenly debated issue in this election campaign. In fact it has hardly been mentioned by the main parties. This table above gives an idea where the parties stand on the issue and does…