Category: Equality Act

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Campaign’s legal threat forces government pledge on election access fund decision

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By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 The government is finally set to publish a long-awaited review of

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Cat Links Anne McGuire, Baroness Jane Campbell, Blog, Cheshire Centre for Independant Living (CCIL), Disability Discrimination, Disability Rights Commission (DRC, DRUK, EHRC, Equality Act, Human Rights, LIz Sayce, Motability, Motobility, Professor Tom Shakespeare, Sir Bert Massie, Spartacus Network

Sir Bert Massie: Tributes to ‘a life committed to disabled people’s liberation’

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By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 Tributes have been paid to Sir Bert Massie, the chair of

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Cat Links Department for Communities and Local Government, Disability Discrimination, Equality Act, ICO Information Commissioners Office, Jannine Blamires, Yorkshire County Council

Court awards disabled woman ‘aggravated’ damages for ombudsman discrimination

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  By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 A county court has delivered a devastating judgment against the

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Nobody is Unfit for Work

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  What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and

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Cat Links Baroness Bakewell, Baroness Jane Campbell, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality Act, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Penny Mourdant, PIP

‘Shabby’ Labour fails again on disability rights, after abstaining on PIP cuts vote

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017   The Labour party has been heavily criticised for again

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Cat Links Baroness Jane Campbell, Equality Act, Supreme Court, Transport for All

‘We must keep banging the drum,’ says bus campaigner after five-year fight for justice

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  By John Pring- Disability News Service 19/01/2017 The disabled activist who yesterday won a ground-breaking legal victory that protects

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