Tag Archives: Disability Hate Crime Network

Law Commission review brings tougher hate crime laws closer

The prospect of tougher laws on disability hate crime has moved a step closer, after the government’s advisers on law reform launched a review of how current legislation was working.
The Law Commission will look at two possible changes, both mentioned in the government’s hate crime action plan in March, but will not report until the [...]

Leveson’s third party reporting call ‘is no slippery slope’

The government must back Lord Justice Leveson’s call for disabled people’s organisations to be allowed to lodge complaints with the press regulator about misleading and disablist newspaper coverage, say campaigners.
A letter published in The Guardian this week says disabled people, alongside other minority groups, have experienced “sustained levels of misleading, hostile and discriminatory reporting in [...]