ABSTRACT
The Human Rights Act 1998 incorporates Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which provides for non-discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status. However, Article 14 protects against discrimination only in respect of ‘the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in [the] Convention’: it is not, therefore, a blanket prohibition on discrimination in all circumstances.
