mental health

Disability discrimination – some common decency, please.

Fiction: Guidance on social distancing and other restrictions must be applied equally to everyone. Law: Applying restrictions and rules equally to everyone –  enforced queuing, closing toilet facilities, restricting use of lifts, insistence on wearing masks etc – will result in unlawful discrimination, most obviously against citizens with disabilities. Discrimination laws under the Equality Act […]

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National low mood – a ‘reasonable excuse’ to ignore Covid restrictions and guidance

Fiction: Anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses are side-effects of lockdown restrictions that we all just have to put up with. Law: If lockdown is causing or likely to cause you mental or physical injury or illness, this will be a reasonable excuse to exempt you in large part from the restrictions. Take the restriction

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