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: Current AwarenessDisability Discrimination Act can extend to carers, rules ECJ - OUT-LAW.com
By sally
“The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said that disability discrimination laws can apply to the carers of disabled people as well as the disabled themselves. It has backed the claim of a woman who sued a London law firm in a groundbreaking case.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th July 2008
Source: www.out-law.com

Full post as published by Current Awareness on July 25, 2008 (boomark / email).
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