The IFoA seems to be keeping its members in the dark about this, but on Tuesday 26 July 2022 at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Mr Justice Choudhury, despite strenuous attempts by the IFoA (with a QC and 3 other lawyers in attendance) to head this off, granted permission for me to take the IFoA to court in a judicial review which challenges whether the IFoA's disciplinary system is sufficiently independent to meet the requirements of a fair hearing as required under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The existence of this legal challenge affects not only anyone currently under investigation by the IFoA under their disciplinary scheme, but also arguably any student or other member facing allegations or being disciplined under the IFoA's shadowy, far from transparent Assessment Regulations.
The case was followed by Tribunal Tweets, the Free Speech Union and other organisations interested in #freespeech and protecting professionals against the increasing encroachment by their professional bodies into members' private lives, in this case the IFoA attempting to police personal political tweets criticising religion.
As it has with other free speech cases (including the Maya Forstater, Holbrook and Allison Bailey ones) Tribunal Tweets live tweeted it, see https://web.archive.org/web/2022072...readerapp.com/thread/1551859648814252033.html.
IFoA members: watch carefully whether the IFoA is transparent about this. If you are affected by
disciplinary matters (including assessment regulation discipline), then ask the IFoA to clarify its position, and whether it will be amending its guidance in the light of the Holbrook, Forstater, Bailey and Harry Miller cases (all of which found that the right to free speech is very important and had been unlawfully interfered with), and whether it will be amending its disciplinary system in the light of my legal challenge, to make sure it complies fully with the law with regard to articles 6 and 10 ECHR.
See also https://www.reddit.com/r/Actuary_ne...ry_narrow_but_a_victory_nevertheless_against/
The existence of this legal challenge affects not only anyone currently under investigation by the IFoA under their disciplinary scheme, but also arguably any student or other member facing allegations or being disciplined under the IFoA's shadowy, far from transparent Assessment Regulations.
The case was followed by Tribunal Tweets, the Free Speech Union and other organisations interested in #freespeech and protecting professionals against the increasing encroachment by their professional bodies into members' private lives, in this case the IFoA attempting to police personal political tweets criticising religion.
As it has with other free speech cases (including the Maya Forstater, Holbrook and Allison Bailey ones) Tribunal Tweets live tweeted it, see https://web.archive.org/web/2022072...readerapp.com/thread/1551859648814252033.html.
IFoA members: watch carefully whether the IFoA is transparent about this. If you are affected by
disciplinary matters (including assessment regulation discipline), then ask the IFoA to clarify its position, and whether it will be amending its guidance in the light of the Holbrook, Forstater, Bailey and Harry Miller cases (all of which found that the right to free speech is very important and had been unlawfully interfered with), and whether it will be amending its disciplinary system in the light of my legal challenge, to make sure it complies fully with the law with regard to articles 6 and 10 ECHR.
See also https://www.reddit.com/r/Actuary_ne...ry_narrow_but_a_victory_nevertheless_against/