Employment law cases

NH v Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI - Rete Lenford [2020] IRLR 532 ECJ

Reports relating to this case:

  • ECJ considers if homophobic comments made in radio interview breached EU law

    Date:
    6 May 2020

    In NH v Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI, the European Court of Justice held that a senior lawyer's comments on a radio programme that he would not wish to recruit homosexual people fell within the scope of the Equal Treatment Framework Directive (2000/78/EC) even though his firm was not recruiting, or planning to recruit, at the time.