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Industrial Law Journal 2007 36(2):141-162; doi:10.1093/indlaw/dwm001
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The Commission for Equality and Human Rights:A New Institution for New and Uncertain Times

Colm O'Cinneide*

* Senior Lecturer in Law, UCL, email: uctlcoc{at}ucl.ac.uk


  Abstract

The establishment of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) has generated a mixture of praise, controversy and heightened expectations. The new Commission has more extensive enforcement powers than did the previous equality commissions. In addition, the ongoing expansion of anti-discrimination law means that the CEHR has new terrain on which to press for change. However, its troubled birth, the pressure of expectation, the ever-increasing complexity of enforcing anti-discrimination legislation and the tensions that lurk within its broad remit present substantial challenges for the new Commission. It will have to be flexible, creative, strategic and tough-minded where required if it is to win credibility and ensure respect for anti-discrimination and human rights values.


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