Systemic discrimination cases involve a pattern or practice, policy, or class case where the alleged discrimination has a broad impact on an industry, profession, company or geographic area.
Not exact matches
It's not (although if you want to make a
case for
systemic discrimination against African American women as a factor I might listen — clearly, though, this is not what you're getting at).
At issue is whether OCR should launch «
systemic reviews» when investigating
discrimination complaints, or stay focused on the facts of a particular
case.
«The difficulty is that the Supreme Court has said on a number of occasions that Aboriginal people face
systemic discrimination in the criminal justice system,» says Rudin, «and this
case doesn't really let us figure out how we're going to deal with that question.
NJP will also accept
cases involving other issues, such as transportation,
discrimination in public accommodations, general barriers to accessing courts and other means of resolving disputes or matters that otherwise address
systemic problems experienced by low income individuals or communities.
Law Times offers a recent example of alleged
systemic discrimination; the
case Law Society of Upper Canada v.... [more]
Moreover, even if a complainant has a right of appeal to a court, the court only has jurisdiction over individual complaints, and can not in an individual
case deal with
systemic issues of
discrimination: Brar v. British Columbia Veterinary Medical Association, 2007 BCHRT 363 at para. 43 onward.
Concerns about
systemic discrimination are relevant at the bail stage in post-9 / 11 terrorism
cases as the overwhelming majority of the accused have been Muslim men, and by definition, all those accused of terrorism will have controversial political or religious motives.