Equality before the Law in UK Law
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Equality: A Fundamental Right in the European Union?
This article analyses the development of a fundamental right to equal treatment or to non-discrimination within the EU legal order through a study of the general principles of Community law, the Ch...... ... -origin:0 100%;-webkit-transform-origin:0 100%;unicode-bidi:bidi-override;-moz-font-feature-settings:"liga" 0;}.t:after{content:'';}.t:before{content:'';display:inline-block;}.t ... ...
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Reframing the Universalist Republic
France’s official republican doctrines preclude public recognition of legal pluralism, whether in the guise of legislative plurality or customary and religious legal orders. This unusually emphatic...... ... translates primarily as a formalistic understanding of equality before the ... ...
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Obstacles to Equality: Government Responses to the Gay Rights Movement in the United States
The Gay Rights movement in the United States, like other social movements, may achieve its goal of full equality before the law through actions by the legislatures or courts. Generally, action by t...... ... -origin:0 100%;-webkit-transform-origin:0 100%;unicode-bidi:bidi-override;-moz-font-feature-settings:"liga" 0;}.t:after{content:'';}.t:before{content:'';display:inline-block;}.t ... ...
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Legal Silencing of Minority Legal Culture: The Case of Roma in Swedish Criminal Courts
The traditional Swedish monocentric and uniform legal model is challenged by an increasingly diverse contemporary legal situation associated with the development of a multicultural and pluralistic ...... ... struc- tures can be changed for betterment to ensure equality before the law and hence legitimacy in a multicultural society ... ...
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‘As Nearly as May be’: Debating Women’s Human
Rights in Pakistan
Tensions between the constitutional commitment to equality and the politicization of Islam create conflicting claims for Pakistan’s legal system. These claims have f...... ... ;-moz-font-feature-settings:"liga" 0;}.t:after{content:'';}.t:before{content:'';display:inline-block;}.t ... A BSTRACT Tensions between the constitutional commitment to equality and the politicization of Islam create conflicting claims for ... ...
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Interpreting the Contours of Self-Defence within the Boundaries of the Rule of Law, the Common Law and Human Rights
The Crime and Courts Act 2013 has amended s. 76 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 on the amount of force a person can use in self-defence. The amended provision poses a dilemma for t...... ... ;-moz-font-feature-settings:"liga" 0;}.t:after{content:'';}.t:before{content:'';display:inline-block;}.t ... to comply with the rule of law, incorporating the idea of equality before the law and legality. The courts should respect the traditional ... ...
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The right to freedom from discrimination in Rwanda
Discrimination is prohibited in different provisions of the 2003 Constitution of Rwanda (the Constitution), in different pieces of legislation and in international and regional human rights treatie...... ... ;-moz-font-feature-settings:"liga" 0;}.t:after{content:'';}.t:before{content:'';display:inline-block;}.t ... Article 15 of the Constitution provides for equality before the law and Article 16 of the Constitution prohibits discrimination ... ...
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Age Discrimination: Equal Treatment with Exceptions
The likelihood of age discrimination in relation to employment increases the older a person becomes. The concern is that, partly as a result of this discrimination, large numbers of older workers l...... ... is a human rights one based upon the right of all persons to equality before the law and the second is one concerned with implementing EC ... ...
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The judicialisation of discrimination in the Indonesian constitutional court
Following the post-Soeharto constitutional reform from 1999 to 2002, the Indonesian Constitutional Court was established with powers, inter alia, to review the constitutionality of national legisla...... ... against discrimination under Article 28I(2) and theright to equality before the law under Article 28D(1). However, the Constitution doesnot ... ...
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The judicialisation of discrimination in the Indonesian constitutional court
Following the post-Soeharto constitutional reform from 1999 to 2002, the Indonesian Constitutional Court was established with powers, inter alia, to review the constitutionality of national legisla...... ... against discrimination under Article 28I(2) and theright to equality before the law under Article 28D(1). However, the Constitution doesnot ... ...
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