Yesterday Neil Howard and Rebecca Steinfeld asked via guardian.co.uk whether it is Time to ban male circumcision? The article was prompted by attempts to ban the practice in San Francisco. Male circumcision is common amongst Muslims and Jews, but judging from the 286 comments (so far!) to the article, there are a lot of people who feel [...]
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Should male circumcision be banned?
Posted in Art. 14 | Anti-Discrimination, Art. 3 | Torture / Inhumane Treatment, Art. 9 | Thought/Conscience/Religion, In the news, Medical, Religion on June 15, 2011 | 19 Comments »
No win no fee and the litigation game – Professor Richard Moorhead
Posted in Art. 14 | Anti-Discrimination, Art. 6 | Right to Fair Trial, Case summaries, Employment, In the news on May 13, 2011 |
Birmingham City Council v Barker (Equal Pay Act : Other establishments) (Rev 1) [2010] UKEAT 0056_10_0905 (9 May 2011) – Read jugment One of the allegations made about contingency fees is that they encourage lawyers to cut corners because they are not paid by the hour. It is an allegation which has been specifically made [...]
Litigating equality: a costly business?
Posted in Art. 11 | Freedom of Association, Art. 14 | Anti-Discrimination, Case law, Case summaries, Costs and Procedure, tagged Commission for Equality & Human Rights, Costs and Procedure, Equality Act, Freedom of Association, Racial equality on April 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Commission for Equality & Human Rights v Griffin, Lumby, Darby [2011] EWHC 675 (Admin) Read judgment The Commission for Equality & Human Rights has been ordered to pay costs of court proceedings to two members and a former member of the British National Party. Although the decision is a technical one relating only to costs [...]
Transsexual denied NHS breast surgery loses appeal
Posted in Art. 14 | Anti-Discrimination, Art. 8 | Right to Privacy/Family, Case law, Case summaries, Medical, tagged transsexual on March 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
R (on the Application of AC) v Bershire West Primary Care Trust [2011] EWCA Civ 247 – Read judgment. The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal of a male-to-female transsexual who was refused NHS funding for breast augmentation surgery. The appellant, known as AC, had been diagnosed with gender identity disorder (GID) in 1996. [...]
Analysis: the place of religion in foster care decisions
Posted in Art. 14 | Anti-Discrimination, Art. 9 | Thought/Conscience/Religion, Case comments, Case summaries, Children, Religion on March 2, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Johns v Derby City Council and Equality and Human Rights Commission (intervening) [2011] EWHC 375 (Admin)- Read judgment Religious views opposing homosexuality are a legitimate fostering concern and the local authority’s approach to this question did not constitute religious discrimination. The claimant husband and wife applied to the defendant local authority to be approved as [...]
Is car insurance discrimination ruling completely bonkers?
Posted in Art. 14 | Anti-Discrimination, Case comments, Company/Commercial, European, In the news, tagged car insurance, Europe, Gender on March 1, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Updated | Association belge des Consommateurs Test-Achats ASBL, Yann van Vugt, Charles Basselier v Conseil des ministres, Case C‑236/09 – Read judgment / press release The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that from December 2012, insurers will be prevented from charging different premiums on the basis of an insured person’s [...]
Will churches really be sued for not allowing civil partnerships?
Posted in Art. 12 | Right to Marry / Found Family, Art. 14 | Anti-Discrimination, Art. 9 | Thought/Conscience/Religion, Family, In the news, Religion, tagged civil partnerships, Gay marriage on February 24, 2011 | 7 Comments »
On 17 February the Home Secretary announced that the government was moving ahead with changes to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 which would allow the registration of civil partnerships to take place in religious premises. While welcomed by many, some have voiced concerns that permission will inevitably become coercion. They fear that religious organisations may face [...]
Coalition cancellation of school building program was unlawful
Posted in Art. 14 | Anti-Discrimination, Case summaries, Education, Property, Protocol 2 Art. 1 | Right to education, Public/Private, Spending cuts, tagged school building on February 11, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Luton Borough Council & Nottingham City Council & Ors, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Education [2011] EWHC 217 (Admin) (11 February 2011) – Read judgment The high court has ruled that the coalition government’s cancellation of Labour’s school building program in 6 areas was unlawful. The full background to the [...]
Disabled volunteers can be discriminated against
Posted in Art. 14 | Anti-Discrimination, Case summaries, Employment, European, International, tagged disability, Discrimination, European Court of Justice, Volunteers on January 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
X v Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau [2011] EWCA Civ 28 – Read judgment The Court of Appeal has ruled that disabled people are not protected by domestic or European legislation against discrimination when they undertake voluntary work. In this decision the specific question was whether volunteers at Citizens Advice Bureaus are protected from disability [...]
A Cornish hotel and the conflict between discrimination law and religious freedom
Posted in Art. 14 | Anti-Discrimination, Art. 8 | Right to Privacy/Family, Art. 9 | Thought/Conscience/Religion, Case summaries, Religion on January 24, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Hall & Anor v Bull & Anor [2011] EW Misc 2 (CC) (04 January 2011) – Read judgment Judge Andrew Rutherford in the Bristol County Court has held that the devout Christian couple who ran their Cornish hotel according to their Christian principles directly discriminate against a homosexual couple in a civil partnership, when they [...]
Discrimination at London’s first gay pub
Posted in Art. 14 | Anti-Discrimination, Case summaries, Employment, tagged gay rights on January 17, 2011 |
Lisboa v. Realpubs Ltd & Ors [2011] UKEAT 0224_10_1101 (11 January 2011) – Read judgment The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that a well-known gay pub’s strategy to encourage straight customers led to gay customers being treated less favourably, meaning that the a gay employee was forced to resign. The policies included seating straight [...]
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Adoption, same-sex couples and religion – again
Posted in Art. 14 | Anti-Discrimination, Art. 9 | Thought/Conscience/Religion, Case comments, Case summaries, Children, Religion, Social Care on May 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
In a modern liberal democracy we take for granted the fact that laws apply to all individuals and are enforced by the courts without special consideration of religious beliefs they may happen to have. But for a while at least there was a very real danger of the dissolution of the divide between private orthodoxy [...]
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