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Summary: An article found on the 16 March 2005 in The Advocate, entitled "Bus owner says new rules discriminatory," raises the issue of discrimination towards smaller companies. The following case study examines the case law that is relevant to this issue. It also determines the overall ability of the legal system to address the issue and what changes can be made to the system in this regard.
Under the content area, the Individual and the State, an article found on the 16th March, 2005, in The Advocate entitled `Bus owner says new rules discriminatory' raises the issue of discrimination towards smaller companies.
In the article a small country bus owner says that he is being discriminated against with the new rules from the government stating that a 15-year-old bus must be sold and replaced by a newer updated model. But then that same bus could be bought cheaply by a multiple operator who owned some newer buses and continues to operate the older bus.
The definition of discrimination is formal of substantive equality. In this story the small country bus companies rules are not the same as that of a larger company who can run the older buses when the smaller company cannot, even if the bus passes its RTA inspections.
A relevant case law to...
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