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Proportionality and Employment Discrimination in the UK (2008)
Journal Article
Baker, A. (2008). Proportionality and Employment Discrimination in the UK. Industrial Law Journal, 37(4), 305-328. https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwn016

This paper argues that the justification defence in UK statutory indirect discrimination cases should incorporate proportionality as applied by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). It first analyses the evolution of the UK approach to proporti... Read More about Proportionality and Employment Discrimination in the UK.

Proportional, Not Strict, Scrutiny: Against a U.S. Suspect Classifications Model under Article 14 ECHR in the U.K (2008)
Journal Article
Baker, A. (2008). Proportional, Not Strict, Scrutiny: Against a U.S. Suspect Classifications Model under Article 14 ECHR in the U.K. The American Journal of Comparative Law, 56(4), 847-894. https://doi.org/10.5131/ajcl.2007.0030

This article maintains that U.K. courts, in applying Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), should under no circumstances emulate the U.S. Equal Protection Clause (EPC) approach to justifying state discrimination, and that to d... Read More about Proportional, Not Strict, Scrutiny: Against a U.S. Suspect Classifications Model under Article 14 ECHR in the U.K.