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Resolving Scottish paediatric end-of-life conflicts. (2022)
Journal Article
SIVERS, S. and DOWNIE, M. 2023. Resolving Scottish paediatric end-of-life conflicts. Medico-legal journal [online], 91(1), pages 46-49. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/00258172221135416

This article considers mediation as a means of resolving decision-making disputes between clinicians and parents in paediatric end-of-life cases. It examines the legal tests applied in England and Wales, and notes the lack of precedent in Scotland. T... Read More about Resolving Scottish paediatric end-of-life conflicts..

Offshore helicopter travel: is the U.K. oil and gas industry failing offshore workers? (2019)
Journal Article
DOWNIE, M. and GOSLING, D. 2020. Offshore helicopter travel: is the U.K. oil and gas industry failing offshore workers? New solutions: a journal of environmental and occupational health policy [online], 29(4), pages 504-518. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1048291119887189

In the United Kingdom, oil and gas workers have been transported by helicopter to their workplace at offshore installations for over fifty years. During that time, there have been numerous fatal helicopter accidents. Despite calls from trade unions,... Read More about Offshore helicopter travel: is the U.K. oil and gas industry failing offshore workers?.

Preferential pay protection: does UK law provide poorer protection to those discriminated against on grounds of protected characteristics other than gender? (2019)
Journal Article
DOWNIE, M. 2019. Preferential pay protection: does UK law provide poorer protection to those discriminated against on grounds of protected characteristics other than gender? International journal of decrimination and the law [online], 19(1), pages 4-25. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1358229118817163

UK law treats equal pay claims based on gender (brought under the equal pay provisions of Part 5 Chapter 3 of the Equality Act 2010) differently from equal pay claims based on other protected characteristics of age, disability, gender reassignment, m... Read More about Preferential pay protection: does UK law provide poorer protection to those discriminated against on grounds of protected characteristics other than gender?.

Anglo-American comparison of employers' liability for discrimination in employment based on weightism. (2015)
Journal Article
MIDDLEMISS, S. and DOWNIE, M. 2015. Anglo-American comparison of employers' liability for discrimination in employment based on weightism. Equal rights review, 15, pages 87-111.

This article analyses and compares research into discrimination based on weight (weightism) and the legal rules that cover it in the United Kingdom and the United States. Weightism is discrimination that is often based on stereotypical views of peopl... Read More about Anglo-American comparison of employers' liability for discrimination in employment based on weightism..

Recent changes in the evidential requirements in indirect sex and race discrimination cases. (2009)
Journal Article
MIDDLEMISS, S. and DOWNIE, M. 2009. Recent changes in the evidential requirements in indirect sex and race discrimination cases. International journal of law and management [online], 51(6), pages 367-373. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/17542430911005909

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to critically analyse the impact of recent case law on the various evidential requirements in the area of indirect sex and indirect race discrimination in employment. It is intended to distil from the case law a... Read More about Recent changes in the evidential requirements in indirect sex and race discrimination cases..