Category: News
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Disabled Police Association exhibiting at the Emergency Services Show
The DPA is pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting at the 2019 Emergency Services Show, taking place on 18-19 September at the NEC Birmingham. We’d be delighted if you could visit us at Stand V20. Click here to reserve your FREE place
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High Court ruling on disability retirements and injury pensions
The High Court has ruled that police officers retired due to disability should not have to be reassessed by a doctor in order to qualify for an injury pension. This follows a challenge by former Cheshire Constabulary officer Mark Evans, who retired in receipt of a disability pension but was later refused an additional injury…
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‘Pre-cancerous’ conditions found to be a disability under the Equality Act
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that ‘cancer’ for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 includes pre-cancerous lesions, as it upheld the unfair dismissal appeal of a woman who suffered from a lesion that could have become malignant. In the case of Lofty v Hamis, the EAT considered the definition of a disability…