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Equality Bill

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (Labour) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 19 January 2010. It occurred during Debate on bills on Equality Bill.
I am grateful to noble Lords for their welcome of the government amendments, which have been crafted to respond to some of those toe-curling stories. I have not heard these from the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell, but we have heard similar stories from other people which have made us determined to address these issues. The noble Baroness, Lady Knight, spoke of the word "reasonable". As the noble Lord, Lord Lester, said, it is a legal term which is used constantly in the courts. It would not be proper and it would be impossible for me to define the term "reasonable". The noble Baroness cited the case of a bus driver with epilepsy. I should reassure her that if one has epilepsy one is not allowed to have a driving licence, so that is relatively easy to answer. I understand that that is the case because I have family members who have epilepsy and who are not allowed—
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
716 c933 
Session
2009-10
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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