Author: Doug Paulley

Wheelchair user and residential care user, sometimes thorn in the side of authorities.

The Frequency of Conflict over Bus Wheelchair Spaces

In oral evidence to the Select Committee on the Equality Act 2010 and Disability on Tuesday just gone (3rd November), after apposite and powerful evidence from Transport for All / Gwynneth Peddler (including on the repeated difficulty of conflict for the wheelchair space on buses,) Simon Posner of the Confederation of Passenger Transport Industries said…

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Disability Discrimination: number of cases

There’s a Lords committee afoot, looking at the efficacy of the Equality Act 2010 as relates to disability discrimination. (Snappily entitled the Equality Act 2010 and Disability Committee.) Given this, the question is: how many court cases are there for disability discrimination in the provision of services? This should be easy, because in response to…

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Equality Act and Disability written submissions published

The Lords Select Committee on the Equality Act 2010 and Disability has published the written submissions made for its consideration. We’ve all had to avoid publishing our evidence until now; it’s somewhat of a relief! My evidence to the Committee: as a webpage, in a PDF file. Firstgroup made a submission. Their submission (webpage) consists of…

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