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Equal Rights For Disabled People In Employment Law – A Critical Assessment (Hebrew), Sagit Mor Jan 2012

Equal Rights For Disabled People In Employment Law – A Critical Assessment (Hebrew), Sagit Mor

Sagit Mor

This article presents a pioneering research project, which seeks to explore whether and to what extent the Equal Rights for People with Disability Law, 1998, had an impact on courts' rulings on matters related to disability employment discrimination. In particular, it seeks to examine (1) whether a consistent and instructive legal doctrine has evolved, one that reflects the principles that guided the framers of the legislation, and (2) whether the legal discourse on disability has changed. The article presents the emerging theory of disability legal studies and its unique and original contribution to legal scholarship. Disability legal studies seeks to …


Workplace Health And Safety Law In Australia Update No 1, Neil J. Foster Dec 2011

Workplace Health And Safety Law In Australia Update No 1, Neil J. Foster

Neil J Foster

This is one of a series of updates I will be issuing to provide notes of recent developments in Workplace Health and Safety Law which either have occurred after the book was published, or which I hadn't noticed previously. Update No 1 deals with changes to the common law in relation to actions for nervous shock by relatives of workers who are killed or injured by their employer's negligence.