LRD guides and handbook June 2014

Law at Work 2014

Chapter 6

Does it matter that you could have complied with the PCP if you wanted to?

[ch 6: page 168]

No. For example, in G v the Head Teacher and Governors of St Gregory’s Catholic Science College [2011] EWCH 1452, a case involving school admissions, the refusal to admit a child with a “cornrows” style of haircut was indirect discrimination on grounds of race. It made no difference that the boy could have complied with the PCP by changing his hairstyle.