All items: Sexual orientation discrimination

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  (1) Bourke (2) Griffiths v Secure Guard Ltd [2006] ET/1401986/05 & ET/1401987/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 October 2006

    Tina McKevitt, lecturer in employment law at University of Sheffield, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

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  (1) Norris (2) Robertson v Mrs MJ Lambert and Mr N Lambert t/a The Black Bull Inn, Lowick [2006] ET/2504044/05 & ET/2506873/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 October 2006

    Tina McKevitt, lecturer in employment law at University of Sheffield, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

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  Allen v Paradigm Precision Burnley Ltd and another ET/2416884/2018 (1 report relating to this case)

  • £174,000 award for gay employee who suffered homophobic taunts

    Date:

    16 April 2020

    In Allen v Paradigm Precision Burnley Ltd and another, an employment tribunal found that homophobic comments made by colleagues to to a gay employee amounted to sexual orientation harassment.

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  Asociatia ACCEPT v Consiliul National pentru Combaterea Discriminarii Case C-81/12 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 July 2013

    David Malamatenios is a partner, and Colin Makin, Krishna Santra, Sandra Martins and Melissa Powys-Rodrigues are solicitors at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Austin v Samuel Grant (North East) Ltd ET/2503956/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Heterosexual employee called "gay" because he does not like football wins harassment claim

    Date:

    2 August 2012

    In this tribunal decision, an employee who suffered workplace abuse successfully claimed sexual orientation and religion or belief harassment, despite being heterosexual and not declaring his religious beliefs.

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  Bennett v Bivonas LLP ET/2500602/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Discrimination against gay lawyer who discovered homophobic comment in case file

    Date:

    28 January 2011

    Discrimination can occur even when a comment is in writing and discovered by an employee a long time after the comment was written down, as this case illustrates.

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  Bivonas LLP and other v Bennett EAT/0254/11 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Sexual orientation discrimination: Homophobic comments discovered in archived case file were discriminatory

    Date:

    21 August 2012

    In Bivonas LLP and other v Bennett EAT/0254/11, the EAT held that an employment tribunal was entitled to find that “offensive and insulting” homophobic comments in a written memorandum plainly constituted a detriment to the gay lawyer who was the subject of the comments.

  • Gay lawyer who discovered homophobic comment in case file was discriminated against

    Date:

    6 February 2012

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the employment tribunal was entitled to find that a gay barrister was discriminated against when he discovered a memorandum that made derogatory comments about his sexual orientation. 

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  Black and another v Wilkinson [2013] EWCA Civ 820 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case of the week: Court of Appeal finds B&B's refusal to accommodate gay couple to be unlawful

    Date:

    9 October 2013

    In DLA Piper's case of the week, Black and another v Wilkinson, the Court of Appeal upheld a decision that a B&B owner's refusal to provide accommodation to a gay couple was discriminatory.

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  Bull & Bull v Hall & Preddy [2012] EWCA Civ 83 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case of the week: Sexual orientation discrimination

    Date:

    25 July 2012

    This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers sexual orientation discrimination.

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  Bull and another v Hall and another [2013] UKSC 73 SC (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Sexual orientation discrimination: Christian hotel owners directly discriminated against civil partners in refusing them double room

    Date:

    31 March 2014

    In Bull and another v Hall and another [2013] UKSC 73 SC, the Supreme Court held that Christian hotel owners directly discriminated against a same-sex couple who were civil partners when they refused them a double-bedded room in accordance with their policy of letting such rooms to married couples only.

  • Sexual orientation discrimination: Christian B&B owners' refusal of double-bedded room for civil partners not justified

    Date:

    2 December 2013

    The Supreme Court has held that the owners of a bed and breakfast, whose religious beliefs include that sexual relations outside heterosexual marriage are sinful, could not justify their refusal to give civil partners a room with a double bed, in this important discrimination case on the conflict between sexual orientation laws and the right to manifest religious beliefs.