“A test case that could affect thousands of low-paid women workers struggling to get the same pay as male colleagues began in the Court of Appeal today.”
The Times, 15th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Equal pay legislation needs to be radically changed if women are to get a fair deal quickly, the Commission for Equality and Human Rights has warned.”
BBC News, 14th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Thousands of low-paid women, including cleaners and care workers, will see their hopes of better pay set back tomorrow when the equality watchdog drops its support for their legal battle.”
The Times, 14th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A leaflet produced for a fashion and home catalogue has been criticised by the advertising watchdog for encouraging women to get into debt.”
BBC News, 9th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Muslim women are to be offered courses and training in an attempt to fight extremism in their communities, the government has said.”
BBC News, 6th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government has rejected a plan to let women boost their state pensions by buying up to nine years’ worth of extra National Insurance (NI) contributions.”
BBC News, 20th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Government is supporting a proposal to close 15 women’s jails and replace them with a network of small custodial units that will allow female prisoners to be held closer to home.”
The Times, 7th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council v Bainbridge and Others
Court of Appeal
“A woman, who could clearly base an equal pay claim with a man in the same grade, under section 1(2)(b) of the Equal Pay Act 1970, where their two jobs were rated as equivalent following a job evaluation study, could also base such a claim on comparison with a man placed in a lower grade by such a study but who in fact received more pay than her.”
The Times, 28th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note: the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication
“Life for women in the legal workplace need not be as bad as some would paint it.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 18th October 2007
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Lecture by Mrs Justice Dobbs at Queen Mary, University of London.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 18th October 2007
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“The number of women taking employers to court claiming unfair pay is rising so quickly that it has left the system unfit for purpose, according to the head of Britain’s equality watchdog.”
The Times, 21st September 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Women are beating men up the career ladder but are still being paid less and getting smaller bonuses for doing similar work.”
The Times, 5th September 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The magic circle is falling short in the diversity stakes when it comes to female partners, with all four seeing less than 10 per cent of their equity falling into female hands.”
The Lawyer, 3rd September 2007
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“This report, published on Wednesday 25 July, examines the work that has been done in the last year to improve the criminal justice system for women, as offenders, victims and staff … ”
The Fawcett Society, 25th July 2007
Source: www.fawcettsociety.org.uk
“The father and uncle of a young Kurdish woman began life sentences last night for arranging her ‘barbaric and callous’ murder to restore their family’s ‘honour’.”
The Guardian, 21st July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The horrific final hours of a Kurdish woman murdered on the instructions of her father and uncle because she had brought ‘shame’ on her family were revealed to a court yesterday.”
The Times, 20th July 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“More community sentences should be tailor-made for women to keep them out of jail, a women’s equality group has claimed. ”
The Times, 11th July 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Specialist teams are to be set up around England to help deal with any so-called “honour crimes” and offences arising from forced marriages.”
BBC News, 20th June 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The murder of Banaz Mahmod, a Kurdish Muslim woman, by her father and uncle, has brought the practice of honour killings to the attention of the public and has again emphasised the plight of Asian women caught between traditional religious customs and modern Western values. Moreover, the death of Miss Mahmod, 20, forces us to examine how such crimes are treated by the criminal courts and raises a question about the quality of policing in such cases.”
The Times, 19th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Women in the public sector seeking equal pay with their male colleagues are taking more than 1,500 cases to court a month, at a cost to the taxpayer of more than £1 billion, it has been claimed.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th June 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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