Equality and Discrimination Law

by Fredman FBA, Sandra; Hill, Henrietta; Millar QC, Gavin; Williams QC, Heather

• ISBN13: 9780199575336
• ISBN10: 0199575339
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This definitive new looseleaf provides a comprehensive treatment of discrimination in employment, as well as in the areas of education, goods, and services, transport, and public services. With two releases a year, it provides up-to-date coverage of all recent equality legislation and case law. Professor Sandra Fredman, Henrietta Hill, Gavin Millar QC, and Heather Williams QC, lead a team of highly distinguished contributors from Doughty Street and Old Square Chambers who will ensure you are fully up-to-date with all developments in this rapidly changing area. They are supplemented by an expert Editorial Advisory Panel of leading individuals, including Baroness Hale, John Wadham, and John Bowers QC, who ensure unprecedented breadth of coverage. Offering in-depth analysis of all the relevant legislative provisions, and all recent case law, this title has a clear and logical structure, beginning with a summary of the main sources of law, and discussing a range of common concepts, prohibited grounds, areas in which discrimination can occur. It also has extensive discussion of enforcement, including the role of the new Equality and Human Rights Commission, and remedies, and is practically focused, containing a range of useful checklists and flowcharts, forms and precedents, designed to guide you through this complex area. The work also contains consideration of potential arguments, especially relating to areas on which there is currently little existing case law, helping practitioners consider the ways in which the laws might develop.

Author Biography

Professor Sandra Fredman (Call 2002) FBA is Professor of Law at Oxford University and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Sandra joined Old Square Chambers as an academic tenant in 2004, and specializes in discrimination law, human rights law, public law and employment law, including EU social law. Her practice involves giving specialist input into cases or requests for advice on areas of her expertise.
Henrietta Hill (Call 1997) is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers specializing in inquests, discrimination law, claims against the police and related public law work. Henrietta regularly represents Claimants alleging sex, race, disability and other forms of discrimination in the workplace, often instructed by trade unions. Henrietta has particular expertise in bringing discrimination claims against the police, prisons and other public authorities and service providers, having authored Blackstone's Guide to the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, the Act which was the starting point for such claims. Henrietta has a wide international experience including several cases before the European Court of Human Rights (including some on behalf of Fair Trials Abroad) and Privy Council work. In December 2006 Henrietta received the Liberty/JUSTICE Peter Duffy Award (formerly the Young Human Rights Lawyer of the Year Award).
Gavin Millar QC (Call 1981, Silk 2000) is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specializing in discrimination and trade union law, and all aspects of employment law. As well as employment cases, his public law practice covers local government, education and election law. He has appeared at a number of major public inquiries including those into the Clapham Junction rail disaster and the Westminster City Council "homes for votes" scandal. Gavin was described as an "incredible cross-examiner" in the defamation/privacy section of Chambers & Partners 2006.
Heather Williams QC (Call 1985, Silk 2006) is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers specializing in discrimination claims, both in the employment and non-employment field. She also specializes in actions against the police and related private law and public law work concerning prisoners and victims of miscarriages of justice. Heather is ranked in Chambers & Partners Directory 2009 as a leading silk for civil liberties/human rights work and also ranked as a leading silk in the equivalent civil liberties/human rights category in the 2008 edition of the Legal 500 Directory. Heather has experience of the European Court of Human Rights, and also sits as a Part-Time Employment Judge in the London South region.

Table of Contents

Part A:Main Sources of Law