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Positive about Equality: The Public Sector Duty under Threat
Author(s) -
O'BRIEN NICK
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-923x.2013.12040.x
Subject(s) - duty , context (archaeology) , government (linguistics) , human rights , public sector , duty to protect , task (project management) , gender equality , political science , public administration , law , law and economics , sociology , economics , management , gender studies , linguistics , philosophy , paleontology , biology
This article seeks to demonstrate what is at stake in the Coalition Government's review of the public sector equality duty introduced by s. 149 Equality Act 2010. It does so by setting the duty in the context of other legal developments at home and abroad, especially the evolution of the role of ombudsmen in the UK in promoting equality and human rights, and the reform of court processes in India to decide social rights claims. It suggests that any attempt to dismantle the duty on ‘red tape’ grounds would be unfounded and retrograde step for the larger task of creating a more equal society.