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News Reports 3 : Dec 4-31 2005




The Press
December 6 2005

Action for Discrimination?
Letter to the Editor
by Ian Condie

If a man is sitting beside an unaccompanied child in an aircraft and is ordered, within the hearing of other passengers, to move to another seat merely because he is a man, can he sue the airline for defamation or bring an action for discrimination? Alternatively, could he not insist that the child be moved?