Must a transport provider know that a person is disabled?

New law in force

The Equality Act came into force on 1 October 2010. Some of the information on this page may be out of date.

A transport provider may have treated a disabled person less favourably for a reason related to their disability, even if they did not know the person was disabled. The test which has generally been adopted by the courts is whether, as a matter of fact, this was the reason why the disabled person was less favourably treated.

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