Discrimination Law Review Terms of Reference
The Discrimination Law Review (DLR) set out to address long-held
concerns about inconsistencies in the current anti-discrimination
legislative framework. The Review considered the fundamental
principles of discrimination legislation and its underlying
concepts.
Key areas of this work included:
- A consideration of the fundamental principles of discrimination
legislation and its underlying concepts and a comparative analysis
of the different models for discrimination legislation
- An investigation of different approaches to enforcing
discrimination law so that a spectrum of enforcement options can be
considered; An understanding of the evidence of the practical
impact of legislation - both within the UK and abroad - in tackling
inequality and promoting equality of opportunity
- An investigation of new models for encouraging and
incentivising compliance
- Consideration of the opportunities for creating a simpler,
fairer and more streamlined legislative framework in an Equality
Act. A key priority was seeking to achieve greater consistency in
the protection afforded to different groups while taking into
account evidence that different legal approaches may be appropriate
for different groups
The review resulted in a public consultation from July to
September 2007. This consultation led to the proposals for the
Equality Bill. Click below to view
the relating documents: