Employment law cases

All items: Sexual orientation discrimination

  • HM Land Registry v Grant

    Date:
    22 April 2010

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employment tribunal that held that an employee had been discriminated against on the ground of sexual orientation had failed properly to take into account, among other facts, that the employee had actively “come out” while working at a different office.

  • Sexual orientation discrimination: Homophobic taunting of individual known to be heterosexual constitutes harassment on grounds of sexual orientation

    Date:
    10 February 2009

    In English v Thomas Sanderson Blinds [2008] EWCA Civ 1421 CA, the Court of Appeal held that alleged homophobic abuse towards a man who is not gay, and aware that the perpetrators did not believe him to be gay, amounts to harassment on the grounds of sexual orientation.

  • Grimshaw v Griffin Signs Ltd and others

    Date:
    21 January 2009

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employment tribunal was not wrong to hold that a claim was out of time and there was no continuing act of discrimination. Nor was it wrong not to exercise its discretion to hear the claim on just and equitable grounds.

  • ECJ ruling on sexual orientation law

    A recent decision of the European Court of Justice may result in the UK having to amend its sexual orientation laws in relation to pensions. Although the main points at issue in the case are already covered by legislation in the UK, the application of the Barber temporal restriction may have an impact on public sector schemes.

  • A good loss: R (Amicus - MSF section) v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

    Date:
    1 June 2004

    The overwhelming majority of discrimination law cases are unsuccessful. If the decision is not one of an employment tribunal, it will be a binding precedent.

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