Landlord discriminated against disabled tenant
Lewisham London Borough Council v Malcolm
Court of Appeal
“A landlord who served a notice to quit on a secure tenant who had unlawfully sublet his premises and who was a disabled person unlawfully discriminated against the tenant.”
The Times, 28th August 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Dyslexia means that chief inspector of police is disabled
Paterson v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Employment Appeal Tribunal
“A chief inspector of police who was dyslexic and who was found by an employment tribunal to have been disadvantaged in comparison with his work colleagues in examinations for promotion, was disabled within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.”
The Times, 22nd August 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“Wales’s disability rights commissioner is taking legal advice on whether the absence of a lift at a rail station’s £5.5m new platform breaks the law.”
BBC News, 19th August 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“MPs have urged the government to speed up efforts to deliver effective laws to combat all forms of discrimination.”
BBC News, 3rd August 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Deep inequalities and discrimination persist in Britain despite 40 years of anti-discrimination legislation, a report by a parliamentary committee said on Thursday.”
Reuters, 2nd August 2007
Source: www.reuters.com
“A Metropolitan Police officer has won a test legal victory that dyslexia is a disability in the eyes of the law.”
The Times, 25th July 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Official equality watchdogs are in revolt against government reforms to discrimination laws, saying that they repudiate the findings of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry and will “do enormous damage” to disabled people.”
The Guardian, 16th July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Campaigners attacked a proposed shake-up of discrimination laws today – accusing ministers of failing to do enough to protect victims.”
The Guardian, 12th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government today published a consultation document including proposals for a Single Equality Bill, to simplify and improve existing legislation and make common-sense proposals to modernise discrimination law.”
Communities and Local Government press release, 12th June 2007
Source: www.communities.gov.uk
“Thousands of buy-to-let landlords will be have to build ramps and lifts for disabled tenants in their properties under the Government’s proposed new equality law.”
The Times, 12th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Limit to sick pay is lawful
O’Hanlon v. Revenue and Customs Commissioners
Court of Appeal
“A sick pay policy that did not provide unlimited full pay for a disabled employee who had lengthy absences from work was not discriminatory under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.”
The Times, 20th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Limit to school’s special needs duty
“A school was not discriminating against an incontinent paraplegic pupil in the provision of education or associated services when it refused to clean and change him following a bowel accident.”
The Times, 11th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“The Disability Rights Commission has threatened 65 public organisations including fire services, councils, colleges and probation boards with legal action after accusing them of failing to comply with new disability laws. ”
The Times, 4th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
O’Hanlon v. Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2007] EWCA (Civ) 283
“An employer’s sick pay policy prohibiting unlimited full pay for a disabled employee having lengthy absences from work due to her disability did not entitle her to bring a claim for discrimination under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.”
WLR Daily, 2nd April 2007
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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