If you are interested in equality law and practice and concerned about how the gains of the past can be protected and used to fight the challenges of tomorrow, then this is the conference to attend.
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We are delighted to announce our 2025 Conference to be held online on Friday, 7th March.
Attendees will:
- Explore the new changes to the employers' duty to protect staff from sexual harassment at work;
- Learn how the most vulnerable are being supported in our legal system during an access to justice crisis;
- Consider discrimination in welfare benefits and assess ways to prevent discrimination in housing and disability accessibility situations, without the need of legislation, and
- be advised, and ask questions on, the latest developments on the increasing use of AI and its potential to discriminate.
In an ever-changing world, this year's DLA conference looks into the future of equality and asks: is the challenge of discrimination today increasingly more important than we've seen in the past?
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Conference Programme
09:50 Welcome and introductions
10:00 Sexual harassment at work: where are we now?
Clare Armstrong (Principal (solicitor), Equality and Human Rights Commission)
11:00 Discrimination in Welfare Benefits
Jagna Olejniczak (Policy Researcher , Citizens Advice)
12:00 Break (tea/coffee)
12:15 Creating a Level Playing Field: the work of the court-appointed intermediary in facilitating communication between the justice system and people with communication
difficulties or differences.
Nicola Lewis (The Intermediary Cooperative)Discussion
13:10 Lunch
14:00 Discussion Session - group discussion on current discrimination problems to find practical solutions without the need for legislation focussing on the following main issues:
- housing discrimination
- disability/accessibility
16:00 Break (tea/coffee)
16:10 Panel session: the future of discrimination law and the challenges of AI, led by:
Robin Allen KC (Cloisters Chambers)
17.10 Close