Monaghan on Equality Law

Written by a leading employment and human rights practitioner, the new edition of Monaghan on Equality Law combines a comprehensive survey of UK equality law with an analytical critique of the legal framework and the concepts that underpin it. The text provides practical guidance on equality law as it applies to specific practice areas including employment, goods and services, housing, education, transport and public law. It will continue to cover the history of equality law, domestically, regionally and internationally. It will also consider the social and political context for it, and will further explore domestic law in detail and will review the main EU and international human rights instruments addressing discrimination. The new edition of this outstanding text comes at an interesting time in this fast-moving area of law. The Equality Act received Royal Assent in April 2010, and represented the biggest overhaul of equality law in 40 years. The book will review the history of the new Equality Act and its’ continuing impact on the landscape of this fast moving area of law. It will examine the innovative provisions introduced by the Act, including provisions addressing ‘multiple’ discrimination and statutory equality duties covering all protected grounds, and will also consider the decisions arising from the raft of case law emerging since the publication of the previous edition.In addition, the text will cover new EU law addressing discrimination outside those areas presently and historically addressed by EU law, and a number of UN initiatives directed at addressing inequality and discrimination.