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Discrimination

Locked	Date	Title	Author	Type	Abstract
	22 Mar 2012	Court of Appeal considers whether cost considerations can justify discrimination	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In Woodcock v Cumbria Primary Care Trust the Court of Appeal has upheld a tribunal's finding that a redundancy dismissal, the timing of which was motivated to avoid the cost of an enhanced pension if ...
	12 Dec 2012	Volunteers not covered by discrimination law	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In X v Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau the Supreme Court has upheld the Court of Appeal’s decision that an unpaid volunteer was not covered by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 as she was not i...
	14 Jan 2013	Ministry of Defence Consultation -Future Reserves 2020: Delivering the Nation’s Security Together - November 2012		Consultations
	26 Apr 2013	Discrimination could be inferred from shareholder’s discriminatory comments	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	Employment News	In Asociatia ACCEPT v Consiliul National pentru Combaterea Discriminarii the ECJ has held that homophobic comments made in public by a person strongly associated with an employer, suggesting the exist...
	1 Mar 2009	English v Thomas Sanderson	Abi Agbaje-Williams, Equality and Human Rights Commission	ELA Briefing	In English v Thomas Sanderson Ltd, a case supported by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Court of Appeal held that a person - who suffered homophobic abuse, who was neither gay nor perceiv...
	1 May 2010	Victimisation Claims: Using Like-for-Like Comparators	Dijen Basu, Devereux Chambers	ELA Briefing	Protection from victimisation is a vital part of the machinery of discrimination legislation. Without it, the protection given by the legislation would be fatally flawed. At its heart is the simple qu...
	1 Nov 2012	A comprehensive guide to the Equality Act	Susan Belgrave, 9 Gough Square	ELA Briefing	Writing about the Equality Act has now become a Sisyphean task – no sooner do you think that you have grasped the implications of a particular provision, having pushed your boulder uphill, than you...
	1 Jul 2009	The Ins and Outs of the Equality Bill	Susan Belgrave, barrister, 9 Gough Square	ELA Briefing	Any excitement one may feel about the Equality Bill must be tempered by the knowledge that it will be a race against time to turn it into legislation before the general election. Whenever that may be,...
	1 Apr 2011	Caste discrimination: is protection necessary?	Susan Belgrave, 9 Gough Square	ELA Briefing	The idea that there may be yet another initiative in the discrimination field will not gladden the hearts of those still ruminating on the changes wrought by the Equality Act 2010
	1 Aug 2008	On the March to Equality: Should Employers Complain	Jane Fielding and Chris Braganza, Wragge & Co LLP	ELA Briefing	Various cases over the last few months have shown that the UK is, in legal terms, at last moving toward full implementation of the Equal Treatment Directive and Framework Directive. In practical terms...