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Draft Equality Act Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations laid before Parliament

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The long-awaited EHRC draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations (Code) was laid before Parliament on 21 May 2026. Parliament has 40 days to review the code; if Parliament does not disapprove the Code, the UK government will then set a date for it to come into force. Once in force, it […]

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Transgender pool player was not discriminated against in being banned from competing in the female category: Haynes v The English Blackball Pool Federation

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Although not an employment case, this is one of the first court decisions dealing with transgender issues since the Supreme Court’s ruling in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers (FWS) in which the Supreme Court confirmed that words such as ‘sex’, ‘woman’, ‘male’, and ‘female’ in the Equality Act 2010 (EqA) referred exclusively to biological

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