{"id":1137,"date":"2016-01-03T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawi.org.uk?p=1137"},"modified":"2016-01-03T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T18:33:08","slug":"equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Equality in United Kingdom<\/h1>\n<h2>Equality in North Ireland<\/h2>\n<p>Equality is an alternative term for &#8216;Equal Opportunities&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It is based on the legal obligation to comply with anti-discrimination legislation. Equality protects people from being discriminated against on the grounds of group membership i.e. sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age or dependant responsibilities.<\/p>\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<h3>See Also<\/h3>\n<h3>Further Reading<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/encyclopedia-of-britain\/\">Equality in the Encyclopedia of Britain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lawlegal.eu\/concise-law-dictionary\/\">Equality in the Osborn&#8217;s Concise Law Dictionary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/halsburys-laws-of-england\/\">Equality in the Halsbury&#8217;s Laws of England<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lawin.org\/judicial-dictionary-of-words-and-phrases\/\">Equality in the Stroud&#8217;s Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/dictionary-of-english-law\/\">Equality in the Jowitt&#8217;s Dictionary of English Law<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/oxford-companion-to-law\/\">Equality in the New Oxford Companion to Law<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lawin.org\/words-and-phrases-legally-defined\/\">Equality in the Words and Phrases Legally Defined<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/oxford-dictionary-of-law\/\">Equality in the Oxford Dictionary of Law<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Equality Impact Assessments in relation with the Courts and Tribunals in England<\/h2>\n<p> The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) conducts equality impact assessments to ensure that policies, processes and services do not discriminate against anyone and that, where possible, we promote equality of opportunity. They enable us to consider the likely impact of work on different groups of people based on a protected characteristic as defined in the Equality Act 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equality in North Ireland Equality is an alternative term for &#39;Equal Opportunities&#39;. It is based on the legal obligation to comply with anti-discrimination legislation. Equality protects people from being discriminated against on the grounds of group membership i.e. sex, race, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,186,13],"tags":[252,494],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawi.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}