articles: legal
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Monday, April 26, 2004
Ron Atkinson – True colours
From the recent furore surrounding the racially offensive remarks made by Mr Ron Atkinson, the now former ITV sports pundit, emerges some very important questions that still, in my view, remain to be answered.
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Monday, August 11, 2003
Friendly banter
Who is it that decides whether racial banter in the workplace is friendly or unfriendly? Well, presumably, I guess there can be only three possible answers: the banterer, the banteree or neither of the two
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Tuesday, April 22, 2003
Ignorance is not always bliss
Under proposed mental health legislation people perceived as having dangerous, incurable personality disorders could be locked up indefinitely in secure mental hospitals, without the need for evidence that they had committed a crime...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2002
An Achilles Heel?
It was said that the only test of leadership is that somebody follows. That might be true in some cases but certainly not in all. I think the former chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, Mr Gurbux Singh, would agree with me
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Monday, July 22, 2002
Black or White
We read and hear about many artists complaining about either their contracts or their recording companies or both. Hungry for success, many recording artists and bands enter into contracts which later defies belief
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Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Institutional Racism
"it is my firm belief that British society is institutionally racist..." Should Sir David’s views, be regarded as so much without merit as to discredit them as laughable?
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Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000
2 April 2002 marked the first anniversary. This passed by peacefully. I do not think that this would have been the case around fifty years ago
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Tuesday, February 26, 2002
Ethnic minority representation on juries
Some people have advocated the need for the ethnic mix of juries to reflect the national average. Clearly, I submit, there are difficulties with this suggestion because it fails to take into account the regional variances
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Monday, November 12, 2001
Victimisation and the Race Relations Act
On 11 October 2001 the House of Lords overturned a Court of Appeal decision on victimisation and the Race Relations Act 1976, as amended, which will have far reaching consequences beyond that Act itself
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Friday, June 01, 2001
Your vote counts
ON 7 June 2001 many of us will cast our vote in the General Election. Sadly, however, many of us will not. I say sadly because when I think of the many “struggles” around the world by people who are willing to “die” simply to have a right to vote
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