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Activist looses equal rights fight

Published 10 April 2008, Posted in National Activist looses equal rights fight

Some of you may have been following the court case challenging the different treatment of people disabled by accident to those disabled by birth/genetics.  The High Court have just ruled that this is legal. This is extremely disappointing.

Justice Robert Dobson has upheld an earlier ruling by the Human Rights Tribunal.  That ruling acknowledged that while the different treatment for people disabled by illness compared with those entitled to ACC was “unjust”, it was legal discrimination.  Ms Trevethick, who has multiple sclerosis, said her lawyers now planned to go to the Court of Appeal.

Read the full story By RUTH HILL - The Dominion Post | Friday, 04 April 2008


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