LRD guides and handbook May 2017

Law at Work 2017

Chapter 7

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



[ch 7: page 240]

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.