Changes over the years
2001 - Brings more changeWith the effect from July 2001 the burden of proof in discrimination claims will change as a result of a European Directive. Employers will now have to demonstrate that the discrimination did not take place. (It is thought that this change will make it easier for employees to bring claims.)
Also in this year…
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Best-selling Album No Angel by Dido
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Best-selling film – Harry potter: The Philosophers Stone
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Foot and Mouth crisis begins
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9/11 Terrorist attack on the Twin Towers New York
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Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott punches a protestor who threw an egg at him in Rhyl
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People in the news who died this year: Mary Whitehouse, George Harrison and Sir Harry Secombe and Roy Witing is found guilty of the murder of Sarah Payne