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Plymouth Law Review

Ruby Forster

Document Type

Graduate Article

Abstract

This article aims to analyse UK equality and anti-discrimination law, mainly the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Equality Act 2010, and government policies surrounding them, in order to assess whether these frameworks have kept up with social change, particularly focusing on the LGBTQ+ community. The statutory frameworks and the effectiveness of their provisions will be examined, and the case law that has emanated from them. The Equality Act 2010 and its success in practice will be explored by assessing governmental policies and bodies like the role of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the 2011 and 2018 ‘LGBT Action Plans’, where various criticisms will be examined. Finally, examples of social change such as the increased use of the internet, rise of campaign groups and their influence, the ‘toilet debate’ and the Coronavirus pandemic will be discussed in light of how UK equality and anti-discrimination law has reacted to benefit the LGBTQ+ community.

Publication Date

2021-01-01

Publication Title

The Plymouth Law Review

Volume

14

Issue

1

First Page

64

Last Page

91

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