English are racial group

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  Northern Joint Police Board v Power [1997] IRLR 610 EAT (2 other reports)

  • 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.

  • 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".