The Public and Third Sector Law Reports
[2023] PTSR 312
Court of Appeal
Smith v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and another
[2022] EWCA Civ 1391
2022 June 29, 30;Oct 31
Sir Keith Lindblom SPT, Holroyde, Coulson LJJ
Planning— Gypsies and travellers— Planning policy— Traveller sites policy defining gypsies and travellers as those of nomadic habit including persons who on grounds of educational or health needs or old age had ceased to travel temporarily or permanently— Policy amended to remove reference to permanence— Secretary of State admitting indirect discrimination— Whether policy unlawfully discriminating against elderly and disabled gypsies permanently settled on those grounds—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 14
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Equality Act 2010 (c 15), s 19