The EAT has confirmed that, although the Equality Act does not yet expressly include caste as a protected characteristic, it is included within the meaning of 'ethnic origins', at least where it is linked to concepts of ethnicity, and is therefore protected under that limb of 'race'. (Chandhok v Tirkey)
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