Indirect Discrimination in UK Law

  • R (E) v JFS Governing Body
    • Supreme Court
    • 16 December 2009
    ... ... , but Munby J granted leave to appeal on the substantive discrimination issues ... 3 On 25 June 2009 the Court of Appeal allowed E's ... were unlawful as they amounted to direct, or alternatively indirect, discrimination as defined in section 1 of the Race Relations Act 1976: ... ...
  • Essop and Others v Home Office (UK Border Agency)
    • Supreme Court
    • 05 April 2017
    ... ... 1 Ideally, discrimination ought to be an easy concept, although proving it may be harder. But we do ... The law prohibits two main kinds of discrimination — direct and indirect. Direct discrimination is comparatively simple: it is treating one person ... ...
  • Wong v Igen Ltd (formerly Leeds Careers Guidance) and Others; Emokpae v Chamberlin Solicitors and another; Webster v Brunel University
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 February 2005
    ... ... provisions comparatively recently introduced into the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 ("the SDA") and the Race Relations Act 1976 ("the RRA") ... many of those cases concerned allegations of direct, rather than indirect, discrimination, it is likely that the majority would have been cases of ... ...
  • James v Eastleigh Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 14 June 1990
    ... ... 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 ... on the ground of his sex' within section 1(1)( a ) or indirect discrimination within section 1(1)( b ) by reasons of the council having ... ...
  • SC and 3 Children v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
    • Supreme Court
    • 09 July 2021
    ... ... indirect discrimination against women as compared with men, contrary to article 14 ... ...
  • Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police and another v Homer
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 April 2012
    ... ... 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 ... The issue was how it might be justified. This case concerns indirect discrimination on the ground of age. Mr Homer appeals against the holding ... ...
  • Seldon v Clarkson Wright & Jakes (Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills intervening)
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 April 2012
    ... ... difficult issues about the scope for justifying direct discrimination on the ground of age and in particular a mandatory contractual retirement ... of equal treatment' shall mean that there shall be no direct or indirect discrimination whatsoever on any of the grounds referred to in article 1 ... ...
  • R (S and another) v Chief Constable of the South Yorkshire Police
    • House of Lords
    • 22 July 2004
    ... ... Article 14: Prohibition Of Discrimination The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this ... I have taken into accountthe analogy of indirect discrimination advanced by Sedley LJ: para 89-92. In my view we are ... ...
  • Mr Charles Ishola v Transport for London
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 07 February 2020
    ... ... It comprised claims of unlawful disability and race discrimination, together with claims of harassment, victimisation, unfair dismissal and ... sickness review meetings) and a corresponding finding of unlawful indirect discrimination, by a judgment promulgated on 27 November 2017, all claims ... ...
  • Lewisham London Borough Council v Malcolm
    • House of Lords
    • 25 June 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 ... disability is the reason why the landlord behaves as he does, and indirect discrimination, where the landlord imposes some requirement which is ... ...
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