O'Cinneide, C;
(2019)
Grenfell and the Limited Reach of Equality within the UK Constitutional Order.
Queen Mary Human Rights Law Review
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Abstract
Grenfell demonstrated the existence of deep inequalities in British society. Across the UK, inequality shapes lives – and, as Grenfell shows, also often selects for death. And yet equality – or, to be more precise, the principle of equality of status – is widely acknowledged to be a fundamental value of the UK constitutional order, receiving extensive legal protection via instruments such as the Equality Act 2010 and Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights. This paper analyses the disjuncture between these legal and constitutional commitments and the raw inequality exposed by Grenfell. It argues that this disjuncture is generated by the obscuring of the socioeconomic dimension of inequality within UK political and legal discourse. It concludes by exploring ways of challenging the limits of the principle of equal status, as currently understood within the UK constitutional order.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Grenfell and the Limited Reach of Equality within the UK Constitutional Order |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/humanrights/hrlr/human-... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Equality, Dignity, Non-discrimination, Article 14 ECHR, Equality Act 2010, SocioEconomic Rights |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10102596 |
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