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Discrimination: Is it time to legislate on caste?
Katharine McPherson and Katherine Shaw weigh up whether the government needs to amend the Equality Act to make clear that it prohibits caste discrimination ‘Given the complexities in defining caste, there is no obvious answer as to where caste belongs within the definitions used in the Equality Act 2010.’ The case of Begraj v Heer …
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- Grainger plc & ors v Nicholson [2009] UKEAT/0219/09/0311
- Mandla v Dowell Lee [1983] IRLR 209
- R (on the application of E) v Governing Body of JFS [2009] UKSC 15