The Equality Act 2010: Five years on
| Date | 01 June 2016 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1358229116655645 |
| Published date | 01 June 2016 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
Editorial
The Equality Act 2010:
Five years on
Chantal Davies, Nuno Ferreira, Anne Morris
and Debra Morris
The Conference
‘The Equality Act 2010: five years on’ conference was organized as a collaboration
between the Forum for Research into Equality and Diversity (University of Chester) and
the School of Law and Social Justice (University of Liverpool). The Equality Act 2010
has arguably been one of the most important and challenging pieces of legislation
introduced in the last decade in the United Kingdom. As such, it was felt that the
5-year anniversary of its implementation provided an ex cellent opportunity to bring
together those researching and practising in this area of law. In particular, the conference
was intended to provide the opportunity for a review of the implications and impact of
the legislation during this period, but also to consider the way in which it can continue to
promote equality and protect against discrimination into the 21st century.
As organizers, we were keen to focus the themes of the conference around the broad
range of socio-legal study taking place across the United Kingdom in relation to the
Equality Act 2010. While many conferences have focussed on the implications of the
legislation for practitioners and wider exploration of equality across a variety of sectors,
it was felt that there were few academic gatherings permitting researchers to explore the
impact of the Equality Act from a socio-legal perspective. Contributors were invited to
submit papers and poster presentations across a range of themes around the legislation
including, but not limited to, the public sector equality duty, intersectionality, positive
action, strategic enforcement, hierarchy of protected characteristics, education, etc.
The quality and range of papers and posters submitted and presented at the conference
exceeded expectations. As had been hoped, the variety of socio-legal study being carried
Corresponding author:
Nuno Ferreira, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, Eleanor Rathbone
Building, Bedford Street South, Liverpool, L69 7ZA, United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland.
Email: nuno.ferreira@liverpool.ac.uk
International Journalof
Discrimination and theLaw
2016, Vol. 16(2-3) 61–65
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