Costs protection in discrimination claims: Call for Evidence

This call for evidence closed on 19 February 2025. We are currently in the process of analysing responses to the call for evidence and undertaking some further stakeholder engagement, and we will produce a response document in due course. In this Call for Evidence, we are seeking views and evidence on the current arrangements for bringing discrimination claims under the Equality Act 2010 in the civil courts in England and Wales and, specifically, whether costs protection should be extended to discrimination claims, to inform our ongoing decision-making process on this issue. MOJ has been considering the costs arrangements in respect of discrimination cases since before the 2019 Post-Implementation Review (PIR) of Part 2 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012, and now seeks the views of stakeholders to help improve our understanding . This Call for Evidence seeks data and evidence to establish whether there is an iss