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26 Nov 2018 15:55
PCP: Verbal Instructions Trump Written Job DescriptionBrangwyn v South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust [2018] EWCA Civ 2235; [2018] 10 WLUK 205; 11 October 2018. In the Court of Appeal, Tim Sheppard successfully defended the Claimant’s appeal against the decision below, to refuse his claim of a failure by the Respondent Trust to comply with the duty more...
23 Nov 2018 17:55
Do you recognise Deaf Discrimination?West Somerset Council are the talking point within the Deaf Community today after refusing to provide a BSL interpreter on the grounds of cost. This would have enabled a Deaf parishioner to attend meetings, which he normally does at his more local Town Council in Minehead. There is a clear more...
12 Nov 2018 11:01
The Weekly Round-up: Rehana Popal, discrimination and deportationAs the international media has become full of whispers as to just where Asia Bibi might be offered asylum, discrimination has once agin been to the forefront of legal bulletins at home. Most notably, the story of Rehana Popal’s treatment at the hands of solicitors who requested that she return her more...
15 Oct 2018 10:11
Conscience and cake: the final chapterLee v. Ashers Baking Company Ltd – read judgment here. On Wednesday the Supreme Court handed down its much-anticipated judgment in the ‘gay cake’ case. The Court unanimously held that it was notdirect discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or political opinion for the owners of a Northern more...
12 Oct 2018 15:26
Lee v Ashers Baking Co & OthersFollowing Lee v Ashers Baking Co & Others in the Supreme Court, Kevin McNerney explores some issues around the judgment. Download the article. more...
12 Oct 2018 15:09
Gay cake: an extra sliceAnthony Korn sums up the Supreme Court’s much publicised ruling in Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd where a bakery chain based in Northern Ireland did not directly discriminate ‘on grounds of sexual orientation’ when it refused to supply a wedding cake with slogan ‘support gay marriage’ on it. Nor more...
Female employee wins £24,000 discrimination award
A female employee at DWP has been awarded £24,000 in compensation after she was discriminated against because of IVF treatment. In the case of Ginger v Department for Work and Pensions, the Employment Tribunal held that the DWP had discriminated against a female employee when a colleague asked her more...
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