X v Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau and another

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
JudgeLady Justice Arden,Lord Justice Moses,LORD JUSTICE ELIAS,Lord Justice Elias,Lord Justice Tomlinson,Lord Justice Rix
Judgment Date26 January 2011
Neutral Citation[2009] EWCA Civ 340,[2011] EWCA Civ 28
Docket NumberCase No: A2/2009/2526/EATRF,Case Nos: A2/2008/1360
Date26 January 2011

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    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 30 May 2013
    ...ART 3(1)(A) EEC DIR 2000/78 ART 3(1) EEC DIR 2000/78 ART 3 EQUALITY ACT 2010 (UK) S39(1) X v MID SUSSEX CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU & ANOR 2011 ICR 460 EMPLOYMENT Discrimination Equality - Discrimination - Membership of Garda Reserve - Applicability of Equality legislation - Statutory interpreta......
  • X v Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau and another
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 December 2012
    ...It is in these circumstances unnecessary to go into the interesting questions which would have arisen, had I concluded that article 3(1)[2011] EWCA Civ 28 Lord Neuberger, President Lord Walker Lady Hale Lord Mance Lord Wilson X (Appellant) and Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau and another (......
  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency v Martin Groom
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 January 2026
    ...was what Langstaff J in Cotswold v Williams [2006] IRLR 181 at [48] described as a wage/work bargain. 41 As Elias LJ said in X v Mid-Sussex CAB [2011] ICR 460, “volunteers come in many shapes and sizes, and it cannot be assumed that all will have the same status in law”. The true volunteer ......
  • Mr Martin Groom v Maritime and Coastguard Agency
    • United Kingdom
    • Employment Appeal Tribunal
    • Invalid date
    ...of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. I was taken to both the Supreme Court decision [2013] ICR 249 and the Court of Appeal decision [2011] ICR 460. The claim failed in the tribunal on the basis that no contract at all existed between the volunteer and the CAB. In the appellate stages,......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Treating volunteers as ‘members of an association’ and the implications for English discrimination law
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Discrimination and the Law No. 12-1, March 2012
    • 1 March 2012
    ...1).22. Either in the Employment Rights Act 1996 s. 230(1) sense or the wider Equality Act 2010 s.83(2) sense.23. X v Mid Sussex CAB [2011] EWCA Civ 28, [2011] ICR 460.Royston 24. X v Mid Sussex CAB [2011] EWCA Civ 28, [2011] ICR 460 [23].25. X v Mid Sussex CAB [2011] EWCA Civ 28, [2011] ICR......
  • Defining the limits of discrimination law in the United Kingdom
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Discrimination and the Law No. 15-1-2, March 2015
    • 1 March 2015
    ...p. 184.78. See X v. Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau [2012] UKSC 59.79. Ibid, at [11], [14] and [15].80. Court of Appeal decision [2011] I.C.R. 460, at [49]–[52].81. See X v. Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau [2012] UKSC 59, at [1].82. Ibid, at [43].83. Ibid, at [21].84. This is not to say......