Making Comparisons in Equality Law: Within Gender, Age and Conflicts

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This book seeks to rebalance the relationship between comparison and justification to achieve more effective equality and non-discrimination law. As one of the most distinguished equality lawyers of his generation, having appeared in over 40 cases in the House of Lords and the Supreme Court and many leading cases in the Court of Justice, Robin Allen QC is well placed to explore this critical issue. He shows how the principle of equality is nothing if not founded on apt comparisons. By examining the changing way men and women's work has been compared over the last 100 years he shows the importance of understanding the framework for comparison. With these insights, he addresses contemporary problems of age discrimination and conflict of equality rights.

Robin Allen, Queen's Counsel is an equality barrister and long-term campaigner for equality rights; instructed in many leading cases at the highest level for every protected characteristic; Bencher of Middle Temple; previously Chair of the Bar Council's Equality and Diversity Committee. He gave the prestigious Hamlyn Lectures in 2018 focussing on comparisons on equality law.