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What is discrimination?

Last updated 02 Nov 2011, review date due 02 Jun 2012

Discrimination happens when a person treats somebody differently or less well than another person, without a good reason.

According to the Disability Discrimination Act, somebody might be discriminating against you if you have epilepsy and:

  • they treat you less well than somebody else, and
  • the treatment is because you have epilepsy, or for a reason related to your epilepsy, and
  • they can’t give you a good reason or explanation for that treatment.

Somebody might also be discriminating against you if:

  • you have epilepsy and they have not made any reasonable adjustments to help you with any problems that epilepsy causes you.

These pages are about the Disability Discrimination Act in Northern Ireland. If you are looking for information about disability discrimination in England, Scotland and Wales, please see The Equality Act. 

If you are looking for information about disability discrimination in another country, please contact your local epilepsy organisation.     


We can provide references and information on the source material we use to write our epilepsy advice and information pages. Please contact our Epilepsy Helpline by email at helpline@epilepsy.org.uk.

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