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Several old friends of EOR featured in the Birthday Honours list.

This month we celebrate 25 years of EOR. In this, our 200th edition, we have reflections from our editorial advisory panel members. (...more)

The coincidence of EOR’s 25th anniversary and our 200th issue not surprisingly prompts some reflection. (...more)

This is an appropriate time and place to announce that Michael Rubenstein Publishing will be launching a new series of law reports later this year, Equality Law Reports.

While recognising that it is important for the sake of appearance that our judiciary broadly reflects the composition of the population as a whole, I have been somewhat sceptical as to whether the fact that a judge was female or male would make any difference to the actual outcome of cases.

The main headline in the New York Times on 10 April read “Retirement of Justice Stevens Is Political Test for Obama” and the second story on the paper’s front page “The End of an Era, for Court and Nation”.

I went to an enchanting reception at the House of Commons for the Pegasus Opera, a multi-racial touring company based in Brixton.

I don’t think I’ve ever met Baroness Ashton, but she has an exemplary reputation in the equality world.

The cost of training means that students from low-income backgrounds cannot afford to become legal aid lawyers, according to a new report.

Like many in the equalities world, I was very saddened to hear of the sudden and untimely death of Sara Leslie at age 54.

I have updated the record of those who have argued cases that have been reported in Industrial Relations Law Reports from its inception in September 1972. ...(more)

Information is now pouring in from my excellent sources for my annual lecture for the Industrial Law Society on “Key employment and discrimination law cases for 2010”. ...(more)

A group of women MPs – Claire CurtisThomas, Kali Mountford, Jacqui Lait and Phyllis Starkey – have complained in a letter to The Times that the proposals by Sir Christopher Kelly to remove the second home allowance from MPs whose constituencies are within an hour’s train journey of London “will discourage women who might otherwise seek their party’s nomination”.

A policy paper published by the Conservative Party, Regulation in the post-bureaucratic age, promises that the Conservatives “will consult carefully on changes that may be required to the employment and discrimination tribunals system to ensure that the system offers fast, cheap and accessible justice, and that it is fair to all sides.” ...(more)

Mid-September to mid-October is conference season, and conferences have dominated my diary over the past month. In September, I went to Oxford for the annual conference of the Industrial Law Society, an event I have attended for more than 30 years.

Vulnerable workers will be able to seek advice about their workplace rights and report abuses of those rights through a new Government helpline.

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A one day conference, devised and chaired by Michael Rubenstein will address the key developments in TUPE legislation and their policy implications 0n 9 October 2009. (find out more)

Religious discrimination probably gives rise to the most divided views of all the statutory discrimination strands. Our features put forward differing views on the issues facing individuals, employers and the tribunals in implementing this statutory protection.

EOR has been informed that EHRC Chief Executive, Nicola Brewer, and Patrick Diamond, Strategy & Policy Director General, have today announced their resignations from the Commission.