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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  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

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    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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  Grant v HM Land Registry and Equality and Human Rights Commission [2011] IRLR 748 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Sexual orientation discrimination: Comments about "out" employee's sexual orientation were not discrimination

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    14 March 2012

    In Grant v HM Land Registry and Equality and Human Rights Commission [2011] IRLR 748 CA, the Court of Appeal held that, on the facts, a gay employee who had "come out" in a previous workplace was not discriminated against or harassed when his manager at a new office mentioned his sexual orientation to, and in front of, colleagues.

  • Comments about employee's sexual orientation after he "came out" were not discrimination

    Date:

    12 July 2011

    The Court of Appeal has held that a gay employee, who had revealed his sexual orientation at his previous office, was not discriminated against at his new office when his manager mentioned his sexual orientation to, and in front of, colleagues. 

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  Grimshaw v Griffin Signs Ltd and others EAT/0299/08 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Grimshaw v Griffin Signs Ltd and others

    Date:

    21 January 2009

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employment tribunal was not wrong to hold that a claim was out of time and there was no continuing act of discrimination. Nor was it wrong not to exercise its discretion to hear the claim on just and equitable grounds.

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  Lee v Ashers Baking Co Ltd and others 24 October 2016 NICA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sexual orientation discrimination: Christian bakery's refusal to make cake with message of support for same-sex marriage

    Date:

    26 October 2016

    In this case about discrimination in the provision of goods and services, the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal has held that a Christian bakery committed direct sexual orientation discrimination when it refused to fulfil an order for a cake featuring a message in support of same-sex marriage.