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Is it legal for a company to offer free coding courses to women only?
A company is offering free coding courses to women and non-binary individuals only.
Is this kind of sex-based discrimination legal?
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Is it against the law to deny service based on (young) age?
My daughter was asked to leave a pet shop as she was unaccompanied by an adult and was under 14. She was in there with the intention of making a genuine purchase and there is no way she would have ...
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Is mere accusation without evidence other than testimony of the accuser, grounds for arrest in the UK?
Several years ago I was stopped in public by the police. Someone had 'identified' me as abusing them in terms of their gender two years before that. Had that happened, I suppose it would have been ...
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Is it legal for a business to refuse service to a former customer in retribution for them leaving negative online reviews of the business?
The workers of the business are excellent at what they do and lovely people, while the manager is always a mean jerk to everyone. I don’t want to stop going there just because of him but I’m finally ...
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Alice's restaurant profiteering from those with allergies
Suppose Alice has a restaurant where she serves pies for £10. She can make them with gluten free bases for the allergic, and these bases cost her £3 over the regular ones' £0.5. However, to make one a ...
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Is it legal to discriminate on marital status for car insurance/pensions etc.?
In 2012 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that gender is no longer allowed to be a factor when premiums are calculated for "everything from pensions to car and life insurance".
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In the UK can a job search be limited to women only
As a spin off from this question on Academia.SE, under the Equality Act of 2010 can a UK employer limit a job to only women? That question has additional aspects that are not relevant to my question. ...
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Sexually Discriminatory Uniform
In my school/sixth form the uniform policy states that girls are not allowed to wear trousers and boys are not allowed to wear skirts. Despite multiple attempts to come to a civil solution to this ...
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Is prosecutorial discretion subject to the public sector equality duty?
The Equality Act 2010 creates a duty on public sector entities to have consideration for equality in all decisions they take. Does this bear on prosecutorial offices and their exercises of ...
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What would be the legal repercussions of a UK government employee coming out as homosexual in the 1970s?
This question is inspired by an incident in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (the Hollywood film version starring Gary Oldman, not the novel or the BBC miniseries with Alec Guinness).
One of the British ...
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Is it an offence if the target of racism only appears to be of/from a different race, colour or national or ethnic origin?
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This question was inspired by I was racially abused at a public park. What legal actions can I take?, although I am not asking specifically about that case. In that question someone, in ...
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Is it lawful to offer smaller portions only to children below a certain age, by calling it a "children's menu"?
Suppose that one is ordering from a restaurant that offers full portions for £11 or half-sized portions on a section of the menu designated as for kids for £6.
But suppose that one is over the ...
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Is it legal to offer a scholarship only for female applicants?
Suppose an organisation offers training courses on a subject of general significance that could not in any stretch be said specific to either or the other gender.
And it offers free spaces on it under ...
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In UK, can religious institutions discriminate against the sexual orientation of their own clergy?
There is this other question about the same subject but it is applicable to the United States. In this question I want to ask about UK employment laws.
This is in consideration of the United Kingdom ...
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What makes something qualify as indirect unlawful discrimination versus simply being lawful practice?
Imagine that Nike makes a particular model/style of trainer, for example, called the Nike Jordan 4128s, which come in a men's and women's version respectively. They both normally retail for £200, but ...