BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Free Speech Union - ECPv6.13.2.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://freespeechunion.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Free Speech Union REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250531T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250531T220000 DTSTAMP:20250624T074316 CREATED:20250407T153211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250509T113203Z UID:10000109-1748718000-1748728800@freespeechunion.org SUMMARY:EQUALITY\, FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE LAW DESCRIPTION:Equality\, Freedom of Speech and the Law\nAkua Reindorf KC talks to Jo Bartosch\n**THIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT**\nDate: Saturday 31 May\nTime: Door and bar open 6.00pm\nEvent: 7.00pm-8.30pm with Q&A\nFrom 8.30pm social and networking.\nIn person: Central Manchester Location near Piccadilly Train Station. Precise details will be sent out to ticket-holders on the day. \nWRN Manchester in Partnership with Free Speech Union\nDiscount tickets for FSU Members – scroll down for link \nJoin us for an evening of fascinating conversation with one of the most authoritative legal voices working in equality law today. \nAkua Reindorf KC is an award-winning barrister specialising in Discrimination and Equality\, Employment\, and Human Rights. She has been a key figure in the debates on sex and gender and freedom of speech and been involved in some of the critical investigatory and litigation activity in these areas as well as writing and speaking widely. She is also a Visiting Senior Lecturer at LSE Law School\, and a Commissioner of the EHRC (but is appearing at the event in a personal capacity). \nAkua wrote the University of Essex’s ‘Reindorf Report’ on suppression of academic freedom as a result of the de-platforming and blacklisting of Jo Phoenix and Rosa Freedman\, both academics who have expressed sex realist views. She successfully defended the LGB Alliance and recently provided a Legal Advice on Manchester City Council’s policy on single sex spaces for the Women’s Rights Network and Labour Women’s Declaration. She is a vocal critic of Labour’s initial plans to pause the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 and an advocate for freedom of expression\, freedom of speech and academic freedom. \nJoin the audience for this special event where Akua will be interviewed by Jo Bartosch\, a campaigner for the rights of women and girls and a journalist who writes on women\, sex-based rights\, and freedom of speech. Jo is a widely published journalist with bylines in The Times\, Telegraph\, and Mail on Sunday. She is assistant editor of The Critic\, regularly contributes to Spiked and Unherd and is also the Memo Editor for Sex Matters. Jo can always be guaranteed to be funny\, scathing and bang on the nose. \n  \n\nTICKETS\nStandard ticket: £13Special rate for FSU members: £10.40Solidarity ticket: £18 URL:https://freespeechunion.org/event/equality-freedom-of-speech-and-the-law/ LOCATION:London CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Regional Speakeasies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://freespeechunion.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-09-at-09.40.36.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR