http://www.tmponline.org/2007/10/25/phillips-calls-for-representative-actions-to-address-growing-crisis-of-discrimination-claims/ The online political magazine and forum Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:12:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.tmponline.org/2007/10/25/phillips-calls-for-representative-actions-to-address-growing-crisis-of-discrimination-claims/#comment-193 Best of the rest: Volume I « Parburypolitica Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:15:04 +0000 http://www.tmponline.org/?p=231#comment-193 [...] TMP on Trevor Phillips [...] [...] TMP on Trevor Phillips [...]

]]> http://www.tmponline.org/2007/10/25/phillips-calls-for-representative-actions-to-address-growing-crisis-of-discrimination-claims/#comment-191 Blogs ‘n’ News Tues-Fri « Muslim Recovery Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:14:39 +0000 http://www.tmponline.org/?p=231#comment-191 [...] Phillips calls for representative actions to address growing crisis of discrimination claims TMP In his first major speech since taking over as Chair of the new Equality and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips has called for the government to introduce the use of representative actions, legal action taken on behalf of a group of named individuals that is similar to a class action law suit. Mr. Phillips was speaking to an audience in Cardiff at the annual Bevan Foundation lecture this week. Against a backdrop in which recent figures from the National Employment Panel indicate 83 percent of employers now believe they will never face sanctions for discrimination, Mr. Phillips said there were powerful reasons to shift the burden away from individuals taking individual claims - often at great personal cost and without adequate legal representation… [...] [...] Phillips calls for representative actions to address growing crisis of discrimination claims TMP In his first major speech since taking over as Chair of the new Equality and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips has called for the government to introduce the use of representative actions, legal action taken on behalf of a group of named individuals that is similar to a class action law suit. Mr. Phillips was speaking to an audience in Cardiff at the annual Bevan Foundation lecture this week. Against a backdrop in which recent figures from the National Employment Panel indicate 83 percent of employers now believe they will never face sanctions for discrimination, Mr. Phillips said there were powerful reasons to shift the burden away from individuals taking individual claims - often at great personal cost and without adequate legal representation… [...]

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