Northern Joint Police Board v Power [1997] IRLR 610 EAT
Reports relating to this case:
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Race discrimination: Scottish and English are racial groups
- Date:
- 15 November 1997
The Scottish and the English constitute separate racial groups for the purposes of the Race Relations Act, defined by reference to their "national origins", rules the EAT in Northern Joint Police Board v Power.
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English are racial group
- Date:
- 1 November 1997
In Northern Joint Police Board v Power (27 August 1997) EOR76C, the EAT rules that the English and the Scottish are "racial groups", defined by reference to "national origins", so that an Englishman could complain that he had been discriminated against on grounds of race when he was turned down for a post in Scotland.
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Scots are racial group
- Date:
- 1 September 1997
In Northern Joint Police Board v Power and Boyce and others v British Airways plc the EAT has held that the Scots (and the English) are "racial groups", for the purposes of the Race Relations Act 1976, defined by reference to "national origins", but not by reference to "ethnic origins".
