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  • R (E) v JFS: something has gone wrong

    Carl Gardner
    December 16, 2009

    The Supreme Court has given judgment today in this case about the admissions policy of JFS school, a state secondary school that has been educating Jewish children in London since 1732. M’s father, E wanted M to go to the […]

    Tags: discrimination, education, race discrimination, religion
  • EHRC v BNP: a brilliant victory

    Carl Gardner
    October 15, 2009

    The news that the BNP has conceded the need to change its constitution in the face of legal action by the EHRC represents a brilliant victory for the equality watchdog and its legal director, John Wadham. I take my […]

    Tags: ehrc, political parties, race discrimination
  • R (Watkins-Singh) v Aberdare Girls’ High School

    Carl Gardner
    July 29, 2008

    Sarika Watkins-Singh has today won her race and religious discrimination case against her school for refusing to allow her to wear the kara, a Sikh bracelet, and for excluding her for breaching the school’s no-jewellery uniform policy.

    Tags: discrimination, race discrimination, religion
  • The Southall Black Sisters case

    Carl Gardner
    July 28, 2008

    Rahila Gupta in today’s Guardian writes about the victory of Southall Black Sisters in its judicial review a couple of weeks ago: Ealing Council had wanted to cut its support for the organisation in order to fund another means […]

    Tags: judicial review, local government, race discrimination
  • Lords judgments today

    Carl Gardner
    November 21, 2007

    There are two of them.

    First, Ward v PSNI, in which the Lords ruled that it was lawful, under the Terrorism Act 2000, for a judge considering an extension of detention, so that the police could […]

    Tags: house of lords, police custody, political parties, race discrimination, terrorism
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