Disability & Other Bias

6+ hour, 18+ min ago   (87+ words) Post Courier The best way to honor those we have lost is to move forward and carry out the dreams they could not fulfill, Inspector Brendan Lomboi Kombogi lived out in memory of his late sister. For the Kombogi family,…...

8+ hour, 27+ min ago   (890+ words) An ongoing court case involving Nelly Ingabire, who accuses a lawyer of discriminating against her because of her short stature, has drawn attention to the language used when referring to people with disabilities. The dispute raises a broader question: which…...

15+ hour, 20+ min ago   (730+ words) Pamela Moore has concerns about MAA Hamilton’s accessibility for those with physical disabilities after another building in her complex caught on fire. Originally from Northern Illinois, Moore has lived in Tennessee for thirteen years, including two years in Chattanooga. Moore…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (281+ words) Kerala High court recently upheld a lower court’s ruling that directed a paralysed man to provide Rs 10,000 monthly maintenance to his former wife. The man, who married in August 2015 after the man placed a matrimonial advertisement had suffered a paralytic…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (350+ words) A sensory garden used by children and young people with additional needs is set to be restored following support from Telford & Wrekin Council’s Building Safer & Stronger Communities team and West Mercia Police. Challenging Perceptions, a Woodside-based charity that supports children,…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (864+ words) A Woodinville woman – who bought tickets for a show at the Tacoma Dome next month – says the venue is charging her what amounts to a fee for being disabled. Now, she's filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Tacoma,…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (407+ words) Banerjee challenged the termination in the High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution, arguing that he was entitled to the protections under Article 311(2) and the Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules. The High Court dismissed his application, stating that…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1135+ words) Background of Section 488 of the original Code, Section 125 of the 1973 Code and Section 144 of the new Code With the underlying objective of enacting a provision for advancing the cause of derelicts, the original Code, i.e. the Criminal Procedure Code, 1898 (original Code)…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (568+ words) Every story links its primary source. General information only, not legal advice. A disability support worker who said she had provided NDIS supports to the same participant for 11.5 years was an independent contractor, not an employee, the Fair Work Commission…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1258+ words) Shaun Winstanley was supposed to be celebrating a milestone: “My 20th and final procedure – holy heck, no one is going to cut into me anymore”. A week later, the news is not so great. “So now I have to go back....