Sentence examples for breach of equality from inspiring English sources

The behaviour is not just unethical, it is also a breach of equality legislation.

The Constitutional Council announced it was overturning the 75 percent bracket on income over 1 million euros ($1.32 million) because it represented a breach of equality of taxes, France24, the television broadcaster, reported.

The minister for equalities is warning government departments and local authorities that they will be in breach of equality laws if they do not examine the potential for cuts to fall disproportionately on women.

The detainees' lawyers say the home secretary is acting unlawfully under detention centre rules and the internal pay review conducted by the Home Office is irrational and is in breach of equality legislation.

The Christian owner of a bed and breakfast has been ordered to pay damages after a court found her refusal to let a gay couple stay in one of her double rooms amounted to direct discrimination and a breach of equality law.

(Meanwhile, rather puzzlingly, leader of Gloucestershire council Mark Hawthorne told Channel 4 News that the case had been lost on "a very small technical point" – a direct contradiction of the judge's own remarks just beforehand, in which he called the breach of equality duties involved "substantive, not merely a technical or procedural defect").

It comes as a shock that our well-regulated criminal justice system is running in breach of disability equality legislation.

According to Phil Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers, this "contravenes article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights and could also be in breach of the Equality Act".

We are, however, interested in any organisation which appears to act in breach of the equality enactments and thank you for drawing this matter to our attention".

The inquiry, the first by the House of Commons Equalities Committee, was particularly critical of the NHS, warning that the health service was "letting down trans people", with too much evidence of an approach that was "discriminatory and in breach of the Equality Act".

But both the school and Cornwall council warned that the teaching of RE was enshrined in law, and that although parents had some rights to withdraw their children from studying religion, it would be a breach of the Equality Act 2010 if parents wanted to stop their children learning about "one specific religion".