The issue focused on a number of areas in the law and the judicial system including, among other things, how to assess whether a particular person is entitled to be treated as a person with a disability.

The Court of Appeal in the UK ruled in 2012 that it was the duty of the UK's courts to consider whether a disability was a mental disorder and therefore to decide if a person was to be treated as having a disability.

The case was brought by the disability charity Mind the Gap, which claimed