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Have a look, see what you think fellas.
http://www.petitiononline.com/hairlong/petition.html
Nice one ;)
we need something like that in the U.S.A. too.
long hair (and bearded) men are discrimanated against here too
I signed. It does say it is open to 'anyone in the UK', which I'm not, but instead of a location I put my nationality, which IS in fact British. In any case, some of the locations given by others were in Canada, which I beleive stopped being British in 1966!
There are only 110 sigs so far. It needs more. If you are a Brit or just live there, then please do sign up.
As to the content, my interpretation of the European Human Rights Act is that the protection of 'self expression' in art. 10 should cover hair styles, but we have no English case law to confirm that, and the existing case law based on the domestic sex discrimination statute is perverse, i.e. in relation to long hair the precedents permit the sex discrimination that the act bans.
We should all push for legislation in every jurisdiction around the globe based on the DC Human Rights Act, which protects 'hair styles' specifically. Better yet, also recite 'hair length' in chapter and verse.
The US federal sex discrimination statute has also resulted in perverse precedents that gut it in relation to hair.
What this shows is that drafting statutes requires very specific language for them to actually work if the judges are not on board with the objective, which in this area they don't seem to be.
BTW, I am a patent agent, not a lawyer. Bill is a lawyer, though (if not a practicing one). Anything to add, Bill?
I think we have at least one other long haired lawyer here, but I can't remember who it is.
This is an excellent and long overdue move by British long haired men to demand their rights and victory to them.
Only problem I feel is that while non-British longhairs like myself should support such an initiative by our UK long haired bretheren, I don't feel we have the standing as non-UK citizens to sign a petition to the UK government on a domestic issue.
However, we could sign a petition to the UK government expresing support for our IK bretheren.