Under the Equality Act 2010, a landlord must not unlawfully discriminate against a prospective tenant on the basis of the tenants protected characteristic as defined in the Equality Act 2010. Discrimination covers direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, victimisation, and harassment and includes refusing to let to someone based on their protected characteristic, imposing different terms to one tenant that they offer to another (based on a protected characteristic), treating a prospective tenant differently in any way based on their protected characteristic. A landlord may have a defence to indirect discrimination if they can show that any discrimination shown when selecting a tenant was a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. If a landlord is found to have discriminated against a prospective tenant, then that tenant may be entitled to pursue a claim for damages based on discrimination.