Equality: A New Framework: Report of the Independent Review of the Enforcement of UK Anti-Discrimination Legislation

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The need for a legislative framework for ensuring equality of opportunity is not seriously questioned in the UK. The present legislation falls short of the standards set by EU law, international human rights law, and the Human Rights Act. In writing this report, the authors set out to develop an accessible and cost-effective legislative framework for ensuring equality of opportunity, and to propose other measures which will promote equal opportunity policies and spur compliance with those policies.

Sir Bob Hepple KC,FBA is Emeritus Master of Clare College; Emeritus Professor of Law in the University of Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Law in the University of Cape Town. He has acted as an independent expert for the ILO and EU. Mary Coussey is a Senior Associate of the Judge Institute of Management Studies in the University of Cambridge. Tufyal Choudhury is a Lecturer in the Department of Law at Durham University.

This Report is written in a fluent and straightforward style. The approach adopted, which lists recommendations relevant to the topic discussed at the end of each paragraph, is particularly useful. This Report is a valuable and welcome contribution to the development of an important principle and the relevant legislation.I would recommend it...The price makes this report accessible. -- Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella * Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law * The report lays out the best short description of the present state of anti-discrimination law in the United Kingdom that I am aware of, presents a clear description of the failings of that law and proposes that a new, fourth generation law be enacted to sustain what is good in the present scheme, to remedy what is less than adequate and to take U.K. anti-discrimination law to the cutting edge. The authors are to be admired for a first class job that attempts a number of interesting techniques that will certainly influence how future projects for the reform of the law will be structured. -- Michael J. Zimmer, Seton Hall University * Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal * ...Equality: A New Framework is such an important document. It scrutinises all aspects of discrimination and unequal treatment, providing new solutions aimed at achieving equality of opportunity. [it] offers the first real attempt to define the kind of legal rights, which all members of discriminated against groups, should have. -- Sonia McKay, Labour Research Department * Industrial Law Journal * The comprehensive nature of the analysis and the extensive scope of the consultation, the quality and esteem of the expert advisory panel and the independence of the review team in particular makes the report a credible and important commentary. -- Muriel Robison * Scolag Legal Journal *