Author: Doug Paulley

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

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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Payment methods for £10 DPA SAR fee #2

A few weeks ago, I raised the question of what payment mechanisms a data controller must accept for the payment of the £10 fee for a Subject Access Request. I have had a somewhat protracted discussion with the ICO since – see the addendum to my original post. The Information Commissioner’s Office have finally come…

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