Martínez Placencia, V;
(2020)
‘Not as Bad as…’ The Concept of Disadvantage in the Justification of Positive Action under UK Anti-Discrimination Law.
UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence
, 9
, Article 4. 10.14324/111.2052-1871.127.
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Abstract
An essential goal of anti-discrimination law is to break the connection between disadvantage and group membership. There should not be a predictable link between being a member of a group with a protected characteristic and being disadvantaged in society. Positive action is the ultimate tool to achieve this aim, however, its application in the UK has been scarce. In this paper, I argue that the relevant concept of disadvantage in discrimination claims is different from the one used to justify positive action. This distinction impacts on the proportionality test and allows clarification of the potentialities and limitations of positive action to redress inequality. This attempt stands from a theoretical point of view but also highlights the reasoning behind recent cases under UK and EU anti-discrimination law.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | ‘Not as Bad as…’ The Concept of Disadvantage in the Justification of Positive Action under UK Anti-Discrimination Law |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.2052-1871.127 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.2052-1871.127 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2020, The Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Anti-Discrimination Law, Positive Action, Disadvantage |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10106935 |
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