Prohibition of Discrimination in UK Law

  • R v Ministry of Defence, ex parte Smith
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 Noviembre 1995
    ... ... Equal pay without discrimination based on sex means: ... (a) that pay for the same work at ... before us, our Armed Forces have had a long-standing absolute prohibition on those known to be homosexual joining, or once discovered, remaining in ... ...
  • Lewisham London Borough Council v Malcolm
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Junio 2008
    ... ... terms of sections 22 and 24 in Part III of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. The question is whether, on the facts and a correct ... exclusion of blind people from a café because of a general prohibition against dogs) given by the minister in his statement introducing the 1995 ... ...
  • Jones v 3M Healthcare Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 19 Junio 2003
    ... ... 's contract of employment are outside the scope of the anti-discrimination legislation. The first appeal raises this question in the context of the ... Similarly, the prohibition of discrimination against applicants and employees in section 4 of the ... ...
  • Hall and another v Bull and another
    • Supreme Court
    • 27 Noviembre 2013
    ... ... customer on grounds of sex, race or disability, by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, the Race Relations Act 1976 and the Disability Discrimination ... Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and extended the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion or belief into, among other ... ...
  • R (Equal Opportunities Commission) v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 12 Marzo 2007
    ... ... ("EOC") is the body authorised by s53(1) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 ("the 1975 Act"): "(a) to work towards the elimination ... the less explicit unwanted conduct in relation to sex, whose prohibition was also required by the Directive ... 7 She accepted that, if ... ...
  • MacDonald v Ministry of Defence
    • House of Lords
    • 19 Junio 2003
    ... ... appeals raise three points on the application of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975. In their speeches my noble and learned friends Lord Hope of ... him on a ground which is outside the scope of the legislative prohibition ... 13 For this reason the appellants are not assisted by the ... ...
  • Jessemey v Rowstock Ltd and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 Febrero 2014
    ... ... He brought proceedings for unfair dismissal and age discrimination. He sought the help of an employment agency to find another job. When they ... even on that approach, and his conclusion was that to read a prohibition on post-termination victimisation into the 2010 Act was simply not ... ...
  • Woodward v Abbey National Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 Junio 2006
    ... ... She complained of sex discrimination and that complaint was settled without admission of liability in December ... Parliament cannot have intended that this prohibition should include an appeal decision regarding dismissal if the appeal is ... ...
  • English v Thomas Sanderson Blinds Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 Diciembre 2008
    ... ... , and certain of the executive provisions: “(11) Discrimination based on religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation may ... Directive; yet Burton J construed the 1976 Directive's prohibition as covering matters not limited to conduct caused by the victim's sex ... ...
  • Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police v A (No 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 06 Mayo 2004
    ... ... discriminated against her unlawfully in breach of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975. In addressing that issue I gratefully adopt and need not repeat ... Ms A relied on the prohibition in article 2(1) of Council Directive 76/207/EEC of 9 February 1976 (the ... ...
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