Age Discrimination in UK Law

  • Seldon v Clarkson Wright & Jakes (Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills intervening)
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 Abril 2012
    ... ... 1 This case raises difficult issues about the scope for justifying direct discrimination on the ground of age and in particular a mandatory contractual retirement age. It arises under the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (SI ... ...
  • Rolls Royce Plc v Unite the Union
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 Mayo 2009
    ... ... His argument, accordingly, was that the ET, not the High Court, was the proper forum for a discussion of age discrimination and justification in the field of employment ... 11 As will, however, be apparent from the extract from Sir Thomas' judgment which I have ... ...
  • Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police and another v Homer
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 Abril 2012
    ... ... 1 The case of Seldon v Clarkson Wright and Jakes [2012] UKSC 16 , which was heard alongside this case, concerned direct discrimination on the ground of age. In that case there was no issue that the application of a mandatory retirement age constituted direct age discrimination. The ... ...
  • James v Eastleigh Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Junio 1990
    ... ... that they had unlawfully discriminated against him on the ground of his sex contrary to section 1(1)(a) and section 29 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975. The claim was heard by Judge Tucker Q.C. in the Southampton County Court who dismissed it. An appeal against his judgment was dismissed by ... ...
  • Essop and Others v Home Office (UK Border Agency)
    • Supreme Court
    • 05 Abril 2017
    ... ... (with whom Lord Clarke , Lord Wilson , Lord Carnwath and Lord Hodge agree) ... 1 Ideally, discrimination ought to be an easy concept, although proving it may be harder. But we do not live in an ideal world and the concepts are not easy, as these two ... ...
  • R (E) v JFS Governing Body
    • Supreme Court
    • 16 Diciembre 2009
    ... ... The finding of a breach of section 71 was not the subject of any appeal, but Munby J granted leave to appeal on the substantive discrimination issues ... 3 On 25 June 2009 the Court of Appeal allowed E's appeal, finding that JFS's oversubscription criteria were unlawful as they ... ...
  • SC and 3 Children v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
    • Supreme Court
    • 09 Julio 2021
    ... ... ) After an introductory discussion of article 14 (paras 36–38), I next consider an argument that the limitation constitutes indirect discrimination" against women as compared with men, contrary to article 14 taken together with article 8 or with article 1 of the First Protocol to the Convention (\xE2\x80" ... ...
  • R (on the application of DA and Others) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
    • Supreme Court
    • 15 Mayo 2019
    ... ... 12 Both sets of appellants primarily cast their claim of unlawful discrimination under the Human Rights Act 1998 (“the 1998 Act”). Their secondary challenge to the scheme for the revised cap is that, in its application to ... ...
  • R (Carson) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
    • House of Lords
    • 26 Mayo 2005
    ... ... 617 , 625, para 20, Brooke LJ set out four questions which a court might find it convenient to consider sequentially when addressing a discrimination claim under article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights ... Subsequent judicial observations have shown that the precise formulation of ... ...
  • Webb v Emo Air Cargo (UK) Ltd (Case C-32/93)
    • House of Lords
    • 19 Octubre 1995
    ... ... 1 This appeal involves a difficult and interesting question in the field of sex discrimination, namely whether an employer is guilty of such discrimination, direct or indirect, when he dismisses a female employee, shortly after engaging her, on ... ...
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