Winning With The Disability Discrimination Act

Provides clear advice and guidance on implementing the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act, including best practice advice, access audits, case studies, assessment and how to handle complaints. This comprehensive toolkit manual with CD-ROM is useful as a business resource for operational managers, company directors, and others.

This Ability is Cotter's third book in a series dealing with discrimination law. Having looked at the theme of 'gender discrimination' in Gender Injustice and 'race discrimination' in Race Matters, this further installment takes a similar approach and structure to illustrate comparisons and contradictions in discrimination law. Disability Law is an increasingly important area in combating disability discrimination. This Ability provides readers with a better understanding of the issue of inequality and aims to increase the likelihood of achieving equality at both the national and international levels for those with disabilities while at the same time educating those without disabilities. The work examines the primary role of legislation and its impact on the court process. It also discusses the two most important trade agreements of our day - namely the North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Union Treaty - in a historical and compelling analysis of discrimination. By providing a detailed examination of the relationship between disability issues and the law, this book will be an important read for those concerned with equality.

The second edition of Disability Discrimination Law, like the first, is a 6" x 9" 235 page paperback. This book gives an overview of the law under the now repealed Disability Discrimination Act 1995 together with summaries and quotes from the judgments of the principal cases heard by tribunals and courts during the fourteen years that the Act was in force. Many of these judgments will still be relevant under the disability discrimination provisions of the Equality Act 2010 that replaced the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and associated legislation on 01 October 2010. To help readers understand the changes which were made to the disability discrimination provisions after most of them were subsumed into the Equality Act 2010 from the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, including modified and new ones, comparisons are made throughout the book between the relevant provisions of the two Acts and a comparative guide to both sets of provisions is provided too.

This book examines the changing relationship between disability and the law, addressing the intersection of human rights principles, human rights law, domestic law and the experience of people with disabilities. Drawn from the global experience of scholars and activists in a number of jurisdictions and legal systems, the core human rights principles of dignity, equality and inclusion and participation are analyzed within a framework of critical disability legal scholarship.

Providing an exposition of recent legislation, this book discusses the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and all related statutory instruments and codes of practice. It also offers expert guidance on the practical issues which arise when advising disabled clients. Each key area is considered, including discrimination in relation to employment, goods and services, premises and transport. Additionally, the far-reaching implications of the legislation in these areas are discussed from the point of view of both the person subject to discrimination and that of the public bodies and commercial or other concerns that need to comply with, or resist claims under, the Act.