11 June 2021
Is the Equality and Human Rights Commission still fit for purpose? What has happened to equality law? Writing in this week’s NLJ, Geoffrey Bindman QC, senior consultant, Bindmans, investigates the state of the equality enforcer.
He highlights severe cuts to the Commission’s budget, falling numbers of cases assisted, investigations and inquiries, and a historic (until six months ago) lack of ethnic minority members. Bindman also questions some of the choices made by the Commission’s leadership.
‘Why, for example, did the EHRC fail to challenge the Home Office’s “hostile environment” which led to the persecution of the so-called Windrush generation?’ He asks. He notes, moreover, that ‘in the whole of its history, the EHRC has launched only two investigations alleging unlawful conduct’.
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