Prohibition of Discrimination in UK Law
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The Outer Limits of the Prohibition of Discrimination on Grounds of Nationality: A Look through the Lens of Union Citizenship
This contribution analyses the outer limits of the EU prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of nationality. The first part considers the case law of the Court of Justice on the substantive s...
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Overview of recent cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union (July – October 2018)
In the reporting period July-October 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered three rulings (Alpenrind, Walltopia, and Commission v Belgium) concerning the conflict rule fo...... ... of personal care benefits (A), the application of the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of disability to social security provisions ... ...
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Enhancing the Protection of Third-Country Nationals against Discrimination: Putting EU Anti-Discrimination Law to the Test
Non-discrimination and migration constitute two areas of EU law and policy that have greatly evolved since the entry into force of the Amsterdam Treaty. Both are of particular relevance to third-co...... ... relevance to third-country nationals whos e status, mobility and integration may depen d highly on EU migration law and the EU’s prohibition of discrimination. In between th ese two elds of EU law, there exists however a grey z one that remains insu ciently explored: it is a ... ...
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Reasonable Accommodation for Religious Minorities: A Promising Concept for European Antidiscrimination Law?
In both the United States and Canada, the concept of reasonable accommodation first emerged in equality law as a means of handling religious diversity. It was then applied to other grounds of discr...... ... It was then applied to other grounds of discrimination, most notably disability. In the European Union, the evolution of ... a right to reasonable accommodation can be derived from the prohibition of discrimination based on religion laid down by the same Directive, or, ... ...
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Overview of recent cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights (April 2022–September 2022)
In this reporting procedure (April 2022–September 2022) 1, we present three cases before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and one case before the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR...... ... had to review this difference in treatment in light of the prohibition of discrimination inArticle 14 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) ... ...
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Overview of recent cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights (April 2022–September 2022)
In this reporting procedure (April 2022–September 2022) 1, we present three cases before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and one case before the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR...... ... had to review this difference in treatment in light of the prohibition of discrimination inArticle 14 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) ... ...
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Race Discrimination and the European Union Anno 1996: From Rhetoric to Legal Remedy?
The question of the legal competence of the EU to adopt binding measures to assist in combatting racial discrimination has traditionally not received much attention. The Treaty on European Union do...... ... The Treaty on European Union does not include a general prohibition of discrimination but only of (pay related) sex discrimination. Moreover, the Treaty provision outlawing discrimination on grounds of nationality ... ...
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Fine-tuning non-discrimination law
This article explores the outer and inner boundaries of the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of age as established by European Union (EU) law and implemented in a selected number of member ...... ... for differential treatment on the ground of age in EU law Elise Muir Abstract This article explores the outer and inner boundaries of the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of age as established by European Union (EU) law and implemented in a selected number of member states. The case law of ... ...
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G.L. v. Italy: The ambiguous role of article 14 European court of human rights in inclusive education cases
In September 2020, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of G.L. v. Italy found the Italian authorities in violation of their Convention obligations towards a child with disabilitie...... ... Article 14 European Convention onHuman Rights (‘ECHR’, prohibition of discrimination) (para. 70). The judgment appears tobe a cause for joy ... ...
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G.L. v. Italy: The ambiguous role of article 14 European court of human rights in inclusive education cases
In September 2020, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of G.L. v. Italy found the Italian authorities in violation of their Convention obligations towards a child with disabilitie...... ... Article 14 European Convention onHuman Rights (‘ECHR’, prohibition of discrimination) (para. 70). The judgment appears tobe a cause for joy ... ...
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