Laying Down the Law: Reflections on the report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities
A generous reading of the report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) would attribute much of its findings to a desire on the part of its authors to see social class added to the list of protected characteristics covered by the Equality Act 2010 (EA) - thereby rendering discrimination which is motivated by class status an actionable wrong (for further discussion of this potential ground of discrimination, see Benn 2020: 30-67). Undoubtedly, by subjecting t