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Equal Treatment Bench Book – interim revision March 2020
March 2020 revision of the February 2018 edition.
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Maya Forstater: Woman loses tribunal over transgender tweets
Analysis by Clive Coleman, Legal affaires correspondent, for BBC News
A woman who lost her job after saying that people cannot change their biological sex has lost an employment tribunal. -
Equal Treatment Bench Book – interim revision September 2019
September 2019 revision of the February 2018 edition.
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Equal Treatment Bench Book – February 2018 edition
Issued by the Judicial College, which says: “The ETBB aims to increase awareness and understanding of the different circumstances of people appearing in courts and tribunals. It helps enable effective communication and suggests steps which should increase participation by all parties.”
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Religion or belief – is the law working?
A report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission exploring whether the equality and human rights legal framework sufficiently protects individuals with a religion or belief, while balancing the rights of others protected under the Equality Act 2010.
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Equal Treatment Bench Book – interim revision September 2015
September 2015 amendments to the 2013 edition.
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Transsexualism: frequently asked questions
Legal advice about employment from the Equal Opportunities Commission, June 2004
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Government policy concerning transsexual people
Department for Constitutional Affairs, December 2002
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Report of the interdepartmental working group on transexual people
Set up by the Home Secretary in April 1999 to consider, with particular reference to birth certificates, the need for appropriate legal measures to address the problems experienced by transsexual people, having due regard to scientific and societal developments, and measures undertaken in other countries to deal with this...
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A Guide to the Sex Discrimination (Gender reassignment) Regulations 1999
Department for Education and Employment, April 1999 This Guide provides guidance in relation to the application of the Regulations; and suggests some aspects of good practice for employers and employees on the issues which may be encountered in accommodating an individual for whom gender reassignment grounds exist in the...
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Corbett v Corbett
1970 Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division
Precedent setting. This was the first time an English court had been asked to decide the sex of an individual in the context of medical procedures designed to alter genitalia to mimic those of the opposite sex. The court held that birth chromosomes,...2nd February 1970