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Employment Law Terms

Associative discrimination

Where a person suffers less favourable treatment because of a protected characteristic that they do not have, but which someone they are associated with has. For example, someone may be discriminated against because they care for a disabled person when they themselves are not disabled.

Authorities

Case law that has decided a particular legal principle. Legal principles are developed by cases which raise issues on new points of law not previously decided. Case law (the “common law”) is a feature of English law and other legal systems based on English law.