Quite. Their conduct is inexcusable. The matter should never have gone to Court. The IFoA should & could have taken steps to stop this years ago but clearly they didn't want to, despite several complaints of their own members not being allowed to join IAI because they're British. The Court has made inference from their failure to put and end to the discrimination that was taking place. The IFoA attempted to pass the blame onto IAI, made out it was nothing to do with them. They even tried to argue the Court didn't have jurisdiction to hear the complaint. Plus they never admitted that 2 exam sittings was less favourable than 4. They even tried to blame the claimant for not flying out to America to do their exams or for not doing a postgrad 15 years ago: it is not for the claimant or anybody else to have to inconvenience themselves to accommodate their discriminatory practices. That is an absolutely disgraceful, arrogant and low IQ defence that should never have been funded by their members.
The IFoA Council has a lot to answer for in all this. They are our supposed elected representatives, who should be holding the Executive to account. The Councillors are actuaries. They are themselves employed by firms who undoubtedly say they oppose discrimination in all its forms. The Councillors must have been regularly informed to some level about this case. The actuaries code requires them to speak up against unethical and unlawful conduct. Despite IFoA being done for racial discrimination, I've seen no criticism expressed or resignation from any of them yet. None of them attended the Court hearing either, from what I understand. This is completely unacceptable as well. Who can now take IFoA seriously when they claim to be for equality and diversity etc ? Any business as usual or further money wasted on lawyers on this matter will bring themselves to further disrepute. Members should not stand for this. It can't be fixed with a PR exercise or more phoney pro-diversity exercises.
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