Equality Act Remedies and Time Limits
Remedies
& time limits
•Sheriff
Court - services, public functions, premises, education (not DD in schools) and
associations/ clubs
-6 month less a day
-declarator, interdict, specific implement, damages
and expenses
-case must be intimated on the Commission
•
•Judicial
review (Court of Session) – actions of a public authority
–3 months
–permission to proceed
–reduction, declarator, interdict or specific implement
EHRC
•Advisors / solicitors
–Strategic
casework
–Second-tier
advice
–Funding
cases
•
• may be able to help victims of discrimination by:-
–offering
funding to solicitors running such cases
–providing
legal assistance with the help of our own discrimination lawyers
–offering
funding to cover certain outlays, such as obtaining medical reports
•Criteria:-
–The
dispute concerns discrimination under the Equality Act 2010; and
–Strategically
important case – test, strengthen or clarify the law
•Own-name enforcement
–Inquiries
–Investigations
–Agreements
–Interventions
–Judicial Review
–Assessments
Last modified: Wednesday, 26 June 2019, 5:00 PM