The Legal road to rights? Disabling premises, Obiter Dicta and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
Date
2003
Authors
Advisors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
ISSN
1360-0508
0968-7599
0968-7599
Volume Title
Publisher
Routledge
Type
Article
Peer reviewed
Yes
Abstract
Description
This article linked the detail of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to a critical jurisprudential appraisal of the Act and tribunal interpretations, and it was targeted at academics and disability rights policy makers. However, it is unashamedly theoretical in parts, exploring critically assumptions at the heart of the Act. Tribunal interpretations of the Act highlight inherent weaknesses of the Act, and the article pulls these together to inform future anti-discrimination policy and law in the field of disability. The author was subsequently asked by the Disability Rights Commission to contribute to the legal construction of the DDA 2005.
Keywords
RAE 2008, UoA 40 Social Work and Social Policy & Administration
Citation
Roulstone, A. (2003) The Legal road to rights? Disabling premises, Obiter Dicta and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Disability and Society, 18 (2), pp. 117-131.