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Marriage discrimination: Dismissal because employee was in close personal relationship, which happened to be marriage, was not discrimination

In Hawkins v Atex Group Ltd and others EAT/0302/11, the EAT held that the dismissal of an employee because she was in a close personal relationship with a particular person, which happened to take the form of marriage, did not amount to unlawful marriage discrimination.