Equality watchdog needs further legal powers, MPs are told
The equality watchdog should be given greater powers that would allow it to take more…
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High court go-ahead for challenge to government’s ‘failure to ensure secret vote’
A disabled woman is challenging the government’s failure to ensure that she can vote secretly…
DWP agrees to pay thousands to disabled duo in universal credit court case
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally agreed to pay compensation to two…
DWP in disarray as fresh legal defeat could mean fourth trawl through its records
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) looks set to carry out a fourth major…
Landmark court ruling over leisure club’s inaccessible swimming pool
A company that runs a leisure club on a luxury housing estate discriminated against a…
Sister launches judicial review claim in bid for sanctions death inquest
The sister of a disabled man who died after being left destitute by having his…
Sanction death man’s sister turns to courts after coroner turns down inquest call
The sister of a disabled man who died after being left destitute by having his…
Coroner asked to explain failure to hold inquest into benefit sanctions death
Lawyers for the sister of a disabled man who died after his benefits were sanctioned…
Sister hopes campaign for benefit sanction inquest will prevent further deaths
The sister of a disabled man who died after his benefits were sanctioned has launched…
Bedroom tax campaigner’s ‘contempt’ for ministers who forced his family to fight
One of the disabled campaigners whose “bedroom tax” cases were heard in the Supreme Court…