The discussion since yesterday on the decision for Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy’s discrimination claim has focussed on discrimination and the hotel owner’s right to religion. It surprises me that no-one has commented as yet on the effects of this type of law which enforces certain standards on individuals and businesses in how they operate. [...]
Archive for the ‘Equality’ Category
January 19, 2011
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The Hall and Preddy case and the increasingly horizontal nature of rights
By Leon Glenister in Equality, Human Rights Act
January 18, 2011
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Shared Parental Leave – a welcome step
By Yaaser Vanderman in EqualityDaniel Barnett, writing in the Guardian, has suggested that Nick Clegg’s proposals for parents to share paternity leave are ‘dangerous’ and a solution to ‘a problem which doesn’t exist’. What a remarkable statement! Barnett appears to be suggesting that the explicit, systemic and endemic manifestations of gender inequality have all been solved. The reality is [...]
