Articles categorised Discrimination Law
Case Comment: Humphreys v Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs [2012] UKSC 18
By Stephen Smith and Sean Mackenzie, Olswang LLP
Summary
The Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the appeal of Humphreys v…
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Case Comment: R (E) v Governing Body of JFS & Ors [2009] UKSC 15
On 16 December judgment was handed down in the widely reported JFS case. The appeal itself was heard by the Supreme Court sitting as a nine judge court, reflecting the importance of the issues raised by the appeal. The judgments are ordered not by the …
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Case Comment: Nadine Rodriguez v The Minister for Housing of the Government of Gibraltar and the Housing Allocation Committee
The Board of the Privy Council has unanimously decided that a government housing allocation policy favouring married couples and couples with a child in common discriminates without justification against same-sex couples. Such couples are unable to hav…
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