Editorial
| Author | Susan Easton |
| Published date | 01 September 2014 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1358229114540839 |
| Date | 01 September 2014 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
Editorial
Susan Easton
Contents
Olivia Smith
Perpetuating Traveller children’s educational disadvantage in Ireland:
Legacy rules and the limits of indirect discrimination
Graeme Lockwood, Claire Henderson and Graham Thornicroft
Mental health disability discrimination: Law, policy and practice
Stuart W Flint and Jereme
´Snook
Obesity and discrimination: The next ‘big issue’?
Editorial 14(3)
In this issue, three forms of discrimination are considered, namely, the impact of second-
ary schools’ admission policies on travellers, discrimination against mentally ill employ-
ees and discrimination against the overweight and obese in the workplace, all of which
have received relatively little attention. The potential and limits of current anti-
discrimination law in dealing with these issues are highlighted. Olivia Smith considers
the impact of admission policies on children from minority groups in Ireland, using sta-
tistical analysis. She notes that ‘subtle’ policies, for example, parental legacy rules and
sibling preference rules, exclude children from disadvantaged groups and considers the
implications of the recent case of Stokes v. Christian Brothers High School in interpret-
ing disadvantage. In Stokes, the Traveller parent had not attended the school in question,
or any other school, and the child did not have a sibling at the school so did not satisfy
either the parental legacy or sibling preference rule. At the time the father was at school
there was very low participation of Traveller fathers in education. So, reliance on
International Journalof
Discrimination and theLaw
2014, Vol. 14(3) 143–144
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