Sentences with phrase «new equality duty»

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The new Gender Equality Duty (Equality Act 2006), effective from 6 April 2007, requires all public authorities, including those commissioning parenting services, to have «due regard» to the need to promote equality of opportunity between men and women.

As the Law Society has indicated, in the documentation accompanying the recommendation as well as the legal opinion that accompanied the report to Convocation, the duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusiveness — not only in our legal practices, but also in our public lives — is implicit in the existing rules and obligations governing licensees, and not a new obligation.

The new duties include: a general duty to promote equality of opportunity which applies to most public authorities; a range of specific duties applying only to named authorities, to reinforce the general duty; and an obligation not to discriminate in the performance of public functions, where this is not already covered by existing legislation.

Based on ground - up case law analysis it constructs a new taxonomy on the grounds of judicial review: mistake, procedural impropriety, ordinary common law statutory interpretation, discretionary impropriety, relevant / irrelevant considerations, breach of an ECHR protected right or equality duty, and constitutional allocation of powers, constitutional rights, or other complex constitutional principles.