In Steinicke v Bundesanstalt fur Arbeit [2003] IRLR 892 ECJ, the European Court of Justice held that a German public sector scheme for part-time working for older employees that was dependent on previous full-time service could infringe EC law if indirectly discriminatory against women, unless justification was shown.
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In Murray v Newham Citizens Advice Bureau Ltd, the EAT holds that anemployment tribunal which found that a complainant who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, was disabled for the purposes of the DDA, had a tendency to violence as a direct result of that condition, and who had been treated less favourably on the grounds of that propensity to violence, had erred in further holding that he had not been discriminated against on the grounds of his disability.