Religious discrimination: is the EHRC's intervention at the human rights Court misjudged?

Consultant editor Darren Newman sets out his view that the intervention by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in four religious discrimination cases - Eweida, Chaplin, Ladele and McFarlane - currently before the European Court of Human Rights is ill thought out. 

• Darren Newman's perspective article One unsatisfactory aspect is that the EHRC fails to draw a clear distinction between art.9 of the European Convention and the test for indirect discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. 

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EHRC consults on proposed legal intervention in religious discrimination cases The EHRC has issued a consultation seeking views on its proposed submission to the European Court of Human Rights on the human rights elements of Eweida & Chaplin v United Kingdom (application numbers 48420/10 and 59842/10) and Ladele & McFarlane v United Kingdom (application numbers 51671/10 and 36516/10).