The Weekly Law Reports
[2022] 1 WLR 1179
Queen’s Bench Division
*Regina (Rowley) v Minister for the Cabinet Office
[2021] EWHC 2108 (Admin)
2021 June 16; July 28
Fordham J
Discrimination— Disability— Duty to make reasonable adjustments— Government holding regular briefings during Covid-19 pandemic— Two briefings held without any provision of British sign language interpretation— Remaining briefings providing “in-screen” rather than “on-platform” interpretation— Whether absence of interpretation for briefings discriminating against profoundly deaf persons by failing to comply with duty to make reasonable adjustments— Whether continuing failure to provide “on-platform” interpretation at briefings in breach of public sector equality duty—
Equality Act 2010 (c 15), ss 20(5)(6), 21, 149