Aids to Interpretation of the Disability Discrimination Act 

The courts and parliamentary drafters, must make use of other interpretative aids in the Disability Discrimination Act. The most common of these interpretative aids is the ejusdem generis rule. This legal phrase means “of the same kind”. Where general phrases are preceded or followed by specific words of the same kind in the Disability Discrimination Act, then the general phrase has to be read down (limited in meaning) to things of the same kind.

Melville Miranda 
Victoria 

Date: 31-5-03         

Sir Ronald Wilson on The Disability Discrimination Act

 Sir Ronald Wilson said ‘The Disability  Discrimination Act made little immediate impact   a largely apathetic community. By and large, it was a case of a business as usual with people with disabilities for most part continuing to be shunted  to the margins-a case of a out-of-sight, out of mind

Melville Miranda
Vic 

Date: 1st June 03