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XpertHR has 5 case reports relating to the case: Palacios de la Villa v Cortefiel Servicios SA [2007] IRLR 989 ECJ.
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Monthly law update
Source: Occupational Pensions  Date: 01-11-2007
Occupational Pensions presents its Monthly law update detailing the progress of legislation and listing relevant new Regulations, other new regulatory material and new court and tribunal rulings.

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Félix Palacios de la Villa v Cortefiel Servicios SA
Source: XpertHR case report  Date: 17-10-2007
In Félix Palacios de la Villa v Cortefiel Servicios SA Case C-411/05, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has given its judgment that the Equal Treatment Directive (2000/78/EC) does not preclude a Spanish law permitting clauses in collective agreements that allow employees to be compulsorily retired when they reach a specified age.

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Highlights of key appeal cases
Source: Equal Opportunities Review  Date: 01-12-2007
This month's round-up of decisions on discrimination from the appeal courts.

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Key discrimination decisions from 2007
Source: Equal Opportunities Review  Date: 01-01-2008
EOR subscribers will be receiving the 21st edition of my annual Discrimination Guide with the February edition. That will take into account the effect on the case law of cases fully reported in Industrial Relations Law Reports during 2007, as well as changes to legislation. Readers familiar with the Guide will know that it focuses on the principles set out by the cases that are still regarded as authoritative. We thought it would be helpful to collect together the new additions to the Guide from the 2007 cases. The order and headings below follow those in the Discrimination Guide

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In court 2007: a year of equality cases
Source: Occupational Pensions  Date: 01-02-2008
Our 18th annual review of the pension cases dealt with by the courts and tribunals summarises 38 judgments. Cases concerning age and sex discrimination dominate.