All items: Direct 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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  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.

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  Callahan v Benchmark Cleaning Services Ltd ET/3200640/2013 (1 report relating to this case)

  • "Hello darling" greeting and limp wrist gestures were direct discrimination, but not harassment

    Date:

    11 April 2014

    In this employment tribunal decision, a manager's detrimental comments about the claimant's sexuality - including a greeting of "hello darling" with a limp wrist gesture - were found to constitute direct discrimination, but not harassment.

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  Ethridge and Mealing v Gamebird Inns Ltd 24 May 2006 ET (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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  Furlong v Chief Constable of Cheshire Police ET/2405577/2018 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Positive action: Police force's recruitment process discriminated against white heterosexual man

    Date:

    1 March 2019

    In Furlong v Chief Constable of Cheshire Police, an employment tribunal held that a police force's recruitment process discriminated against a white heterosexual male candidate who was rejected after the positive action provisions in the Equality Act 2010 were applied to a pool of 127 applicants who passed the interview stage.

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  Governing Body of Sutton Oak Church of England Primary School and others v Whittaker EAT/0211/18 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sexual orientation discrimination: Tribunal identifies wrong hypothetical comparator

    Date:

    9 April 2019

    In Governing Body of Sutton Oak Church of England Primary School and others v Whittaker, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that an employment tribunal failed to identify an appropriate hypothetical comparator when deciding that a gay teacher's dismissal for inappropriate meetings with a pupil constituted sexual orientation discrimination.