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AudreySuffolk MBE

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Equality law compliance trainer and consultant. audreyludwig.com Non-practising Solicitor. My personal thoughts on Equality/Disability/Feminism/ Access2Justice/LawCentres/FineArt etc. Founder Suffolk Law Centre. Repost not endorsement

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · Jun 13

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King’s Birthday Honours 2025 | Audrey Ludwig MBE

King’s Birthday Honours 2025 I’m pleased to share that I’ve been awarded an MBE in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours, for services to legal aid and for founding Suffolk Law Centre (SLC). Having fo...

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 4d

I am proud to be a free speech, free association, freedom of belief ( and lack of belief) universal human and equality rights bore. Yes it means defending some horrible and even offensive stuff. But the authoritarian, undemocratic alternatives are way, way worse .

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 11d

I didn’t take any pictures but the Lee Miller exhibition of her photography at Tate Britain is outstanding. I’m definitely going back as so comprehensive

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John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · 13d

Disabled activist tells conference meeting: Hostile rhetoric under Labour has left me feeling hounded and unsafe
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Activist tells conference meeting: Hostile rhetoric under Labour has left me feeling hounded and unsafe

One of the only disabled activists to speak at Labour’s annual conference has delivered a powerful rebuke to ministers who have failed to do anything to curb the rising levels of disability-related…

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 13d

I stand with the Jewish community today and always

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 15d

I have written a Checklist for UK Managers: Disability Related Reasonable Adjustments.
Hope you find it useful
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Checklist for UK Managers: Disability Related Reasonable Adjustments – Audrey Ludwig

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Colm O'Cinneide @colmocinneide.bsky.social · 23d

Advocates of the UK Home Office/ministers getting more or less unlimited discretion to decide deportation cases, free from any real substantive judicial scrutiny, should be asked about this case.
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Disabled Nigerian man living in UK for 38 years wins appeal against deportation

Anthony Olubunmi George, who arrived in 1986 and has no criminal convictions, given right to remain

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Alexander Chandler KC @familybrief.bsky.social · 26d

I like this very much as an approach to creative writing

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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · Sep 15

Hilma af Klint :
No. 113, Group III, The Parsifal Series, 1916

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · Sep 15

Is George Abaraonye, the president-elect of the Oxford Union. having relatively poor A levels results but getting into Oxford University because of direct race discrimination? I look at Equality law and the need to consider alternative explanations audreyludwig.com/alternative-...

Alternative Explanations Beyond Unlawful Discrimination: A Lawyer’s Approach to Causal Link – Audrey Ludwig

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · Sep 11

To assess people’s integrity, check out how they respond after the murder of a disliked political opponent.

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks!

AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · Sep 2

The hanks. I’ve had to upload in separate post

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · Sep 2

See the last post www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Robin Hood Airport tweet bomb joke man wins case

A man found guilty of sending a tweet threatening to blow up an airport wins his challenge against conviction.

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · Sep 2

It was as recent as 2012 that the man who satirically wrote he would bomb an airport had his conviction rightly quashed by the High Court. He was supported by Stephen Fry and Al Murray. Where are the noble defenders of satirists now? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ive written a blog about Equality Law and the University: An Illustration of Complexity
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Equality Law and the University: An Illustration of Complexity – Audrey Ludwig

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thank you for sharing

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · Aug 28

Usually I aim to post positive things and examples of good practice, but today I'm breaking the self imposed rule because a) the sex discrimination against teenage girls is so shocking and b) it's happening on my doorstep, which is Frome in the SW of England.
Furious 🧵

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 19

US artist Elizabeth Catlett's 1946 print honours Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784), who was sold into slavery at the age of seven and later became the first published African-American female poet #womensart

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · Aug 11

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How important is an Equality Act Statutory Code of Practice? – Audrey Ludwig

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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · Aug 11

As some activist groups have been quite misleading about relative legal importance of Equality Act Statutory Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions & Associations I have done general explainer on statutory codes of practice & their legal significance. Link in first reply

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · Jul 29

I am afraid I have hot takes about this.

I really wish we hadn’t ended up in this world where being a regulator is a profession, with people pursuing it as a career flitting between the BSB and HM Inspector of Constabulary. The expertise should be in the underlying area not Regulation itself.