“Lady Justice Hallett, one of the country’s most senior judges, has claimed she encountered ‘horrific’ sexism during her rise through the judiciary.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A newly appointed Yorkshire judge has been criticised by the region’s language campaigners after banning defendants from referring to female court staff as ‘love’.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Ministers have ruled out a change in the law that would have allowed hereditary peerages to pass to women.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The government’s plans to remove legal aid in private law family cases will place the UK in breach of its obligations under a United Nations convention to prevent discrimination against women, the Gazette has been told.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Once an employment tribunal had found that there were terms in women’s contracts and terms in men’s contracts that were susceptible to comparison and that each of the terms was a distinct provision with sufficient content to make it possible to compare them so that the benefits conferred by the provision could be contrasted, it should proceed to compare them focusing on the equality of terms not of total pay actually received.”
WLR Daily, 28th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The bereaved husband of a doctor has undertaken a legal test case claiming sex discrimination because he is receiving a smaller NHS pension than if he were a widow.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The UK Government is to abide by a European ruling on the use of gender in insurance, although it says the judgment goes against common sense.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A highly successful school’s anti-gang ban on unconventional hairstyles, including cornrows, has resulted in ‘unlawful, indirect racial discrimination which is not justified’, the High Court ruled today.”
The Independent, 17th June 2011
Source: www.indepedent.co.uk
“Islamic courts would be forced to acknowledge the primacy of English law under a bill being introduced in the House of Lords. The bill, proposed by Lady Cox and backed by women’s rights groups and the National Secular Society, was drawn up because of ‘deep concerns’ that Muslim women are suffering discrimination within closed sharia law councils.”
The Guardian, 8th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Theresa May, the Home Secretary and minister for women and equalities, today backed a consultation on modernising Britain’s workplace laws.”
Home Office, 16th May 2011
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“A woman solicitor who alleges that her boss remarked she had ‘all the traits of a blonde’ and should find herself a rich husband has begun tribunal proceedings for sexual discrimination and unfair dismissal.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 12th May 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Ministers claim reforms will make it easier for businesses to grow but unions say change will ‘reward bad employers who disadvantage women and ethnic minority workers’.”
The Guardian, 11th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A pupil is taking a London school to the High Court, arguing its ban on ‘cornrows’ hairstyles is unlawful.”
BBC News, 10th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An internationally renowned chef has won a gagging order preventing publication of a legal wrangle with two former employees.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Government plans for reform of employment tribunals will discriminate against black and minority ethnic groups, disabled people, women, and young workers, according to the Trades Union Congress (TUC).”
Law Society’s Gazette, 19th April 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Employers must act ‘proportionately’ when they provide women who are pregnant or on maternity leave with special treatment at work, an employment appeals tribunal has ruled.”
The Guardian, 6th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Ministry of Defence v Wallis and another [2011] EWCA Civ 231; [2011] WLR (D) 76
“The employment tribunal had jurisdiction to hear discrimination and unfair dismissal claims brought by claimants who had been employed by the Ministry of Defence in the British section of international schools in Belgium and the Netherlands.”
WLR Daily, 9th March 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“It is four decades since the Equal Pay Act came into force, yet men still earn more than women in nearly 90% of job categories, according to analysis by the Guardian.”
The Guardian, 8th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Article 5(2) of Council Directive 2004/113/EC was invalid with effect from 21 December 2012 since it permitted European Union law and consequently member states’ laws, to derogate from the principle of equal treatment of men and women, guaranteed by articles 21 and 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, without temporal limitation.”
WLR Daily, 2nd March 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Legally speaking, the judgment from the European court of justice that prohibits use of gender in underwriting premiums is unsurprising.”
The Guardian, 1st March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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