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Conscription of People with Disabilities

Introduction Military conscription of people with disabilities, sometimes termed a disability draft, has occurred on various occasions historically. Cases Below are listed known cases of the drafting of disabled persons: In Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War, more than 480 people with intellectual disabilities were conscripted. Men who had previously been rejected from military service… Read More

by Andrew Marshall

Can Obesity be a Disability?

It is only necessary to establish ‘an impairment’ and its effect, not its cause, says the EAT  In Walker v Sita Information Networking Computing Ltd the EAT (Employment Appeals Tribunal) had to determine whether an ET (employment tribunal) was right to rule that an obese employee was not disabled because there was no identifiable cause… Read More