Challenging Racism: Using the Human Rights Act | Discrimination Law Association

Date published:

1 January 2005

Challenging Racism: Using the Human Rights Act Edited by Barry Clarke

This book is a practical guide to using the Human Rights Act to take legal action against incidences of racism. It includes chapters on:

Criminal law
Education
Immigration law
Freedom of expression
Religious discrimination
Racial harassment
Housing law
Actions against the police
Employment law
Funding cases

Each chapter is written by an expert from within the field, and provides information on how the act relates to existing legislation, commentary on the relevant parts of the act, examples of cases that could be pursued, and analysis of the problems that could arise.

Contributors: Geoffrey Bindman, Barry Clarke, Barbara Cohen, Helena Cook, Razia Karim, Philip Engelman, Makbool Javaid, Sadiq Khan, Ramby de Mello, Veena Vasista, Chris Myant, Judith Farbey, Rajiv Menon, Stephen Simblet, Sharon Persaud and Heather Williams.

Barry Clarke is a solicitor with Russell Jones & Walker http://www.rjw.co.uk/our-team/barry-clarke, specialising in employment law and discrimination law, both areas of practice which are increasingly influenced by human rights considerations.

Published by Lawrence & Wishart in association with the Discrimination Law Association, ILPA, CRE and 1990 Trust

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