Exploring Equality Act 2010 and Human Rights Legislation

Introduction to law

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
Exploring the Equality act 2010 and the Human rights legislation.......................................3
Examples of UK legal cases which includes both Equality Act 2010 as well as Human
rights legislations...................................................................................................................5
Similarity and dissimilarity of the provisions of human right legislation with the Equality
Act 2010.................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The law refers to the rule which is developed by the government and the society in
order to deal with the crime, business, finance, social relationship and is controlled by the
controlling authority. The Equality law 2010 has certain provisions which highlights the
human right legislation as well, which is studied in detail in this report. This report covers the
comparison between the human rights legislations with the Equality Act 2010 with UK
caselaw in terms of similarities and dissimilarities.
MAIN BODY
Exploring the Equality act 2010 and the Human rights legislation
The Equality Act 2010
The new Act of equality came into force in the year October 2010 which covers more
than 116 separate pieces of legislations under only one individual Act. It delivers a
framework which provides assistance in protecting the individual rights along with the
opportunity to all (Wintemute, 2016). This Act provides Britain with a discrimination law a
swell with the purpose to protect the people against the unequal treatment and for endorsing
the fair and the more equal society. There are 9 major legislation which are merged into this
Act are:
 The Equality Act 2006, Part 2
 The Disability Discrimination Act 1995
 The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006
 The Equal Pay Act 1970
 The Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007
 The Race Relations Act 1976
 The Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003
 The Sex Discrimination Act 1975
 The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003
Few of the most notable aspects of the Equality Act 2010 includes: introduction of the
new public sector duty in relation to the socio-economic inequality, prohibition of the
multiple discrimination which is limited to the cases on the two grounds of discrimination
only (Butler, 2016). It also includes the protection against the discrimination which is based
on the criteria of gender such as reassignment to the school students. Developing a unique