Sentences with phrase «on equality grounds»

West Coast LEAF and the Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) were jointly granted leave to intervene in Denton v British Columbia, a case that addresses whether a claimant who was denied workers compensation benefits is barred from challenging that denial on equality grounds under the Charter because she did not raise the argument at an earlier stage of her case.

that religious selection amounts to legalised discrimination on the basis of belief or practice, which is increasingly unacceptable to many people of faith and of no faith on equality grounds in our plural society

Not exact matches

If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

«Our equality law protects religious people on those grounds in exactly the same way that it protects gay people — but no more than that.»

It criticises the «complete lack of transparency» around the Department for Education's free schools programme and the lack of robust processes to ensure that free schools are properly scrutinised and accountable on grounds of racial equality.

Harriet Harman, the Equalities minister, wants a new law to put «the persistent inequality of social class» on the same footing as discrimination on grounds of race, gender, sexuality or disability.

Even where schools do legally discriminate on religious grounds, this can lead to ethnic, socio - economic and religious segregation of pupils in practice and create wider problems for social cohesion and equality.

It points out the Equalities Act allows religious organisations to discriminate in various ways: against potential applicants for jobs on grounds of religion or belief, for example.

Quite apart from centuries - old political stances being irrelevant to the current campaign - the Labour Party once stopped Emmeline Pankhurst from joining on the grounds of her gender, but I'm not aware of that governing the nature of their equalities policies since - Mr Huhne is being selective with his history.

The dictionary defines feminism as «the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.»

Which is why I was disappointed to see a statement from several mainstream civil rights organizations opposing the opt - out movement, supposedly on the grounds of civil rights and equality.

Educate Together, Ireland's equality - based school provider, welcomes the Cabinet announcement that the «baptism - barrier», which allows state - funded religious - run schools to discriminate on religious - grounds in the enrolment of children, is to be discontinued from...

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).

This decision is the latest in a line of cases which have grappled with the «conflict of equalities», many of which have concerned the potential clash between religious freedom and the prohibition on discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation.

Discrimination: Irrespective of length of service, an employee may bring a claim for discriminatory dismissal or discrimination based on any one of the nine discriminatory grounds contrary to equality legislation (i.e., gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race (including colour, nationality and ethnic or national origin) and membership of the traveller community).

Baroness Hale agreed with this and furthered her argument on the grounds of the fundamental common law values of autonomy, equality and human dignity.

It is correct that we have a duty not to discriminate on prohibited grounds, but there is no positive legal duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusion.

R (Jewish Human Rights Watch) v Leicester City Council, Swansea Council and Gwynedd Council [2016] EWHC 1512 (Admin); QBD (Div Ct), June 28 2016; [2017] 3 All ER 505 Successfully resisted challenge on public sector equality grounds to Council resolutions to boycott goods form the occupied territories.

Advising a European goods manufacturer seeking to challenge a public procurement on the grounds of lack of objectivity, transparency and equality in the tender process.

In one respect, the judgment of the Quebec Court of Appeal (COA) is consistent with Miron v. Trudel (1995) in which the SCC held that exclusion of common - law spouses from automobile insurance benefits constituted discrimination on the grounds of marital status under s. 15 Charter equality provisions.

As I touch on above, the concepts of analogous grounds under equality is well litigated and disputed.

Ishaq challenged the policy on a number of grounds, including freedom of religion and equality rights under the Charter.

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.

Providing equality of access to all students, in line with the colleges equal opportunities policy, and not discriminating on any grounds.

The Commission submits that it is contrary to the guarantee of equality and prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of race, religion, language and ethnic origin where the law regards that which is the sum of the relationship in the nature of title between indigenous people and the land as more readily destroyed by a paramount grant than the nearest full equivalent title (an estate in fee simple) of non indigenous persons.