Sentences with phrase «equality duty under»

Finally, when considering whether the Lord Chancellor had complied with the public sector equality duty under section 149 of the EqA when introducing the Fees Order, the Court of Appeal considered that the equality impact assessment carried out at the relevant time was adequate to meet that duty.

● The council's proposals did not render them in breach of its general disability equality duties under s 49A of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

Looking at the behaviour of the government in relation to the equality duties under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010), one might be tempted to think not.

In the recent attempt at dismantling the effectiveness of the public sector equality duties under the EqA 2010, two approaches have been adopted by the government.

Not exact matches

I'm not being asked to acknowledge my duty to accommodate under the Code within my workplace», I'm being asked to acknowledge my purported obligation to promote «equality, diversity and inclusion generally».

First, if one accepts that the obligation to acknowledge one's duty to «promote equality, diversity and inclusion generally» is a form of compelled speech, then it's hard to see how such an obligation can be justified under section 1, given that no such obligation actually exists — hard to see how an obligation to acknowledge a non-existent obligation is a reasonable limitation that can be justified in a free and democratic society.

Like you, I believe that there are strategies the LSUC could pursue which would achieve their substantive goals, strategies which accurately reflect existing (and unambiguous) legal and ethical obligations and which are consistent with constitutional requirements and principles (as I've noted above, if the current requirement around a Statement of Principle merely required acknowledgement of our actual existing obligations under the Rules, rather than a general duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusion which is found nowhere in the Rules, I suspect much opposition would melt away and the LSUC would be on far stronger Charter grounds).

You're still going in circles when you say that «It may well be that the purpose of the duty of accommodation is to «promote equality», it doesn't follow that lawyers have a duty to promote equality...» The lawyers involved indeed have a duty to accommodate under the Code within their workplaces, which again is the primary thrust of the Statement.

The general disability equality duties contained in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA 1995), s 49A apply to the exercise of a local authority's functions under the community care legislation.

It is clear that in any case where the decision may affect large numbers of disabled people, the necessary due regard to the needs of disabled people under the public sector equality duty is very high.

Even if it is not a named authority, it may still chose to publish an equality scheme to demonstrate that is has complied with its general duty — in much the same way as an equal opportunities policy, though not compulsory, is currently used to demonstrate an awareness of an organisation's obligations under discrimination legislation.