DDA: to whom does a person with a disability compare themselves?

• Author:
• Phil Allen

The House of Lords has overturned one of the key tests applied in disability discrimination law. The decision should be good news for employers, but does raise question marks about almost every disability discrimination decision reached in the last decade.

The core issue the Law Lords needed to focus on was how you decide whether something is discrimination - to whom does the person with the disability compare themselves? The debate was best illustrated by the example discussed by all of the... (416 more words)

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