Lee Japser
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I am wanting to open discussions about racism in the borough and also offer a thread that can be a place where people can find out examples of racism and resistence in one place ...
Sounds like a mirror image of the normal leaving to get a senior job in Securicor (or even the Church of England) so disciplinary action "has to be halted".
IMHO the authorities are trying to rule out equalities issues being cited in disciplinary cases, as you suggest. Maybe Lee Japser will confirm.Trying to work this one out. I take it that the Met want to stop officers up for sack from defending themselves using the Equalities Act. If the Met get this other government bodies will use this as a precedent?
Basically someone defending themselves will not be able to argue that discrimination on race or gender is connected to the Met trying to sack them? That the Met will not have to prove that discrimination plays no part in this?
This thus weakens the range of the Equality Act. With Brexit looming the Equality Act is the only way to defend ones self as , now "we have our borders back" there will be no recourse to EU human rights legislation? I did think the European Court of Human Rights was separate from the EU? So not necessarily affected by Brexit?
Seems to me that if there is Equality Act it should not be allowed to have get out clause of Judicial Immunity. If the Met is so sure it does not discriminate it shouldn't be afraid of it being using in dismissal cases.
Can you explain more the background Lee Japser ?
I've looked at this
Black Activists Rising Against Cuts. (BARAC)
But feel I'm guessing as not expert on the Equalities Act.
As he appears to otherwise engaged, try:Trying to work this one out. I take it that the Met want to stop officers up for sack from defending themselves using the Equalities Act. If the Met get this other government bodies will use this as a precedent?
Basically someone defending themselves will not be able to argue that discrimination on race or gender is connected to the Met trying to sack them? That the Met will not have to prove that discrimination plays no part in this?
This thus weakens the range of the Equality Act. With Brexit looming the Equality Act is the only way to defend ones self as , now "we have our borders back" there will be no recourse to EU human rights legislation? I did think the European Court of Human Rights was separate from the EU? So not necessarily affected by Brexit?
Seems to me that if there is Equality Act it should not be allowed to have get out clause of Judicial Immunity. If the Met is so sure it does not discriminate it shouldn't be afraid of it being using in dismissal cases.
Can you explain more the background Lee Japser ?
I've looked at this
Black Activists Rising Against Cuts. (BARAC)
But feel I'm guessing as not expert on the Equalities Act.
Race and race-related issues in Lambeth are not featured on here quite as much as they used to be. Neither are incidents relating to youth violence - there used to be discussions about what drove youth violence and criminality, unless I've missed them, there's not as much evidence of them as there used to be...
Within that article is the following paragraph, which seems to indicate not much change in perception on the side of Unison and their members on one side and Lambeth Council on the other side in 15 years:Quite ...
Council staff in one of London’s most ethnically diverse boroughs have accused bosses of institutional racism, claiming that racial tension is escalating at the local authority with devastating consequences ..."
Staff accuse Lambeth council of institutional racism (click for more)
I find the Independent almost impossible to read - pop-up adverts and demands you register etc.Nearly four years later ....
Metropolitan Police and Lambeth Council successfully sued by Black activists for human rights breach
Nearly four years later ....
Metropolitan Police and Lambeth Council successfully sued by Black activists for human rights breach
I am wanting to open discussions about racism in the borough and also offer a thread that can be a place where people can find out examples of racism and resistence in one place.
"Brixton Buzz extends its congratulations to Philip Normal, the UK’s first openly HIV+ mayor, who has now been elected Mayor of Lambeth ...
... We’ll be looking to enjoying some colourful moments from our new major!
"Black victims of sex abuse at a council-run children’s home say they are getting less compensation than white victims ..."
24 April 2020:
Source: Philip Normal, the UK’s first openly HIV+ mayor, is the new Mayor of Lambeth
13 January 2022 - some "colourful moments":
Labour councillor and ‘La’ t-shirt maker Philip Normal resigns over ‘racist, Islamophobic’ tweets
"Equality was always at the heart of my politics when I was younger"
Philip Normal (previously known as Philip Burr) quoted here: Philip Normal, the UK's first openly HIV+ mayor, teams fashion with politics