Both Pub Philosopher and Paul Waugh have noticed something about the Equality Bill: the government’s explanatory note to clause 10 (scroll up the page for the note), which defines “belief” for the purposes of preventing discrimination on […]

The Equality Bill published yesterday does quite a lot of things: it aims to replace existing discrimination law on sex, race, age and so on, and update it, harmonising the protection given to each “protected characteristic”, which in many […]

Something I’ve not yet commented on since my part facultative-festive and part enforced-technological break is the welcome restoration of sense and good legal analysis to the field of religious discrimination by the Employment Appeal Tribunal, which has reversed

There are two today, both from Northern Ireland.

In Re E is about the protests and distress of little girls trying to attend the Holy Cross Church in north Belfast in 2001 in the midst of […]

This is another of the judgments the Lords gave on super-Wednesday at the end of July, and is worth a look because of the way their Lordships deal with the question of religious discrimination. It’s another stark contrast […]

Sarika Watkins-Singh has today won her race and religious discrimination case against her school for refusing to allow her to wear the kara, a Sikh bracelet, and for excluding her for breaching the school’s no-jewellery uniform policy.

The European Court of Justice has given a judgment today to the effect that the “Employment Directive”, 2000/78, which outlaws discrimination at work on grounds including disability, does not simply outlaw discrimination against disabled workers but extends to […]

Munby J gave judgment last Thursday in the Administrative Court in a fascinating case about whether the admissions policy of the Jewish Free School is lawful – the complaint coming from the parents of a boy who was refused […]

I’ve landed, I’m now with computer, and my sleep patterns are nearly normal, but for my first post-holiday post I’m going to stick with the States. If you’ve ever been there and fumbled in your wallet for a dollar, only […]

I’m blogging lite, as you know, but must while in the U.S. of A. mention the decision of the California Supreme Court, which has ruled that gay people have a constitutional right to marry their same-sex partners, just as […]