Protected characteristics The Equality Act 2010 provides protection against discrimination which relates to certain listed characteristics which people may possess. Some...
Convention rights The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) came into force in October 2000 and aims to give effect to the rights contained in the European Convention on Human...
The government has stated that tackling the gender pay gap is a priority and that its goal is to 'end the gender pay gap in a generation'. It has brought into force...
STOP PRESS: On 23 June 2016, the UK held a referendum on its membership of the EU, with a majority voting in favour of the UK leaving the EU. The full impact of Brexit...
Parliamentary statements of compatibility Introduction The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) is designed not only to give people a remedy when their...
Introduction The European Convention on Human Rights sets out the rights and freedoms which the contracting parties are required to respect. Some of the rights in the...
Parliamentary statements of compatibility The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) is designed not only to give people a remedy when their rights under the European...
This Practice Note considers the court’s position as a ‘public authority’ for the purposes of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) and the effect on judgments concerning...
Introduction The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) imposes a duty on all public authorities in the UK to act compatibly with Convention rights. Where this duty is...
Neither the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) nor the European Convention on Human Rights (as set out in HRA 1998, Sch 1) contains express defences for public authorities...
This Practice Note considers the definition of disability for the purposes of protection from discrimination and other prohibited conduct under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA...
Background This Practice Note summarises the law and provides practical guidance to service providers in respect of their obligations to provide goods, services and...
Statutory framework The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is an independent non-departmental public body established under the Equality Act 2006 (EA 2006),...
Medical evidence obviously plays an important role in prohibited conduct claims under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010) which rely on the protected characteristic of...
The gender pay gap reporting obligations are set out in the following pieces of legislation: • Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017, SI...
In last 10 years annual number of statutory instruments passed grew from 71 to 3,286 statutory instruments, demonstrating the increasing codification of UK law and the...