La politica sui cani da assistenza di JD Wetherspoon potrebbe violare la legge, dice il cane da guardia

>JD Wetherspoon’s policy to refuse to serve disabled customers who do not have photo ID for their assistance dogs could be breaking the law, the equality watchdog has said.

>The pub chain has had a ban on dogs – with the exception of assistance dogs – in its UK pubs for a number of years.

>However, in May last year the firm introduced a new policy to ask anyone wanting admission with a dog to produce identification from a charity called Assistance Dogs UK (ADUK).

I think it’s clearly a breach of law to deny service based on the inability to produce a voluntary identification from a third party charity – that’s not a requirement in the statute.

But i wouldn’t be surprised if Wetherspoon’s are being a bit coy here and will argue the policy is only to ask for them to produce it and the policy doesn’t include denying them service.

Asking seems allowed, refusing is not. However the mere act of asking may indicate it was necessary when it’s strictly not.

That or Wetherspoon’s are just dick heads and wilfully breaking the law.

Then someone needs to take them to court.

Pubs banning dogs is shite anyway and I am not even a dog owner.