“A trainee lawyer is in line for compensation from a top City law firm after winning her case for discrimination after she missed out on a job because she was pregnant.”
The Guardian, 19th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A legal test is set to begin into the government’s decision to cut housing benefit for recipients living in properties that have a spare room.”
BBC News, 15th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Government is to remove the Employment Tribunal’s power to make recommendations to employers that go beyond the specifics of a particular discrimination claim, it has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Caste is not something that exists only in the cities and villages in the Indian subcontinent. With the diaspora, caste has travelled around the world, the United Kingdom being no exception. Despite activist and academic demands, the then Labour government decided not to prohibit caste discrimination when it enacted the Equality Act 2010. Instead, section 9(5) of the Act permitted a Minister to amend the Act ‘so as to provide for caste to be an aspect of race’—a power that was never exercised. Section 97 of the recently enacted Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 now requires the concerned Minister to amend the definition of ‘race’ in section 9(1) of the Equality Act to include ‘caste’. The new legislation also empowers the Minister to review the operation of the amended section 9(5) of the Equality Act and repeal it if necessary. The House of Lords would have preferred a more straightforward and permanent expansion of the definition of ‘race’ by Parliament directly, but compromised to persuade a cautious Commons.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 10th May 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
“Campaigners against Barnet council’s radical plan to outsource hundreds of millions of pounds worth of services, dubbed easyCouncil, are to take their case to the appeal court after a judge ruled their objection to a £320m contract had come too late.”
The Guardian, 29th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Commonwealth Law Conference: Equality before the law – Speech by Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, 18th April 2013.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 24th April 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Caste discrimination is to be outlawed in the UK, Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced in what is a U-turn on previous government policy.”
BBC News, 23rd April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ethnic minority Britons were subjected to nearly one-and-a-half million more stop and searches in the 10 years after the Macpherson inquiry than if the police had treated them the same as white people, the Guardian can reveal.”
The Guardian, 22nd April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Macpherson report made 70 recommendations – 67 led to specific changes in practice or law within two years of publication.”
The Guardian, 22nd April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Employers may not realise that they’re favouring ‘people like us’ applicants but a recent tribunal case highlights how the burden is on the employer to explain a difference in treatment.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“There is growing anecdotal evidence that some UK firms are filtering out job candidates with foreign-sounding names”
The Guardian, 11th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Guidance on how employers should deal with requests made by employees in relation to religion or belief does not create new rights, but rather recommends ‘good practice’ to help employers comply with existing laws, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th April 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“In May 2012, the Home Secretary announced a review of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED), which came into force a year earlier in April 2011, as an outcome of the Red Tape Challenge. The review is focusing in particular on levels of understanding of the PSED and guidance, the costs and benefits of the duty, how organisations are managing legal risk and ensuring compliance with the duty and what changes, if any, would secure better equality outcomes. It is being overseen by a steering group, appointed by Government Ministers, largely drawn from public authorities.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“We urgently need up to date research on gender and equality pay within the legal sector, say LSB.”
The Guardian, 20th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The House of Lords voted on Monday to outlaw discrimination against people on the basis of their caste.”
The Guardian, 5th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Equality in the Judiciary (PDF)
Speech by Lady Hale
Kuttan Menon Memorial Lecture, 21st February 2013
Source: www.supremecourt.gov.uk
“Positive discrimination may be needed to redress the gender imbalance among senior judges, the only woman in Britain’s highest court has proposed.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Laws restricting civil partnerships to gay couples discriminate against heterosexuals, four straight couples are to argue in a landmark challenge at the European Court of Human Rights.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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