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- Date:
- 1 March 1998
- Type:
- Law reports
In Grant v South-West Trains Ltd (17 February 1998) EOR78A, the European Court of Justice rules that European Community law does not cover discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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- Date:
- 1 March 1998
- Type:
- Law reports
In Grant v South West Trains Ltd the High Court has rejected a claim that denial of travel benefits to the same-sex partner of a female employee was in breach of her contract of employment.
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- Date:
- 15 May 1997
- Type:
- Law reports
In R v Secretary of State for Defence ex parte Perkins, the High Court refers three questions to the European Court of Justice concerning the compatibility with the EC Equal Treatment Directive of the Armed Forces' longstanding policy of discharging any person of homosexual orientation.
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- Date:
- 1 May 1997
- Type:
- Law reports
In R v Secretary of State for Defence ex parte Perkins (13 March 1997) EOR73B, the High Court refers questions to the European Court of Justice relating to whether discrimination on grounds of a person's sexual orientation is discrimination on grounds of sex contrary to the Equal Treatment Directive.
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- Date:
- 1 May 1996
- Type:
- Law reports
In Smith v Gardner Merchant Ltd (13 February 1996) EOR67E, the EAT holds that harassment of a homosexual on grounds of sexual orientation cannot be regarded as falling within the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of sex.
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- Date:
- 1 March 1996
- Type:
- Law reports
In R v Ministry of Defence ex parte Smith and others (3 November 1995) EOR66B, the Court of Appeal rejects the challenge to the lawfulness of the policy by which homosexual men and women are not permitted to serve in the armed forces.
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- Date:
- 1 July 1995
- Type:
- Law reports
In R v Ministry of Defence ex parte Smith and others (7 June 1995) EOR62F, the Divisional Court rules that the policy that homosexual men and women are not permitted to serve in the armed forces is not unlawful.
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- Date:
- 1 July 1995
- Type:
- Law reports
In R v Ministry of Defence ex parte Smith and others, the High Court holds that the MoD's blanket ban on anyone of homosexual orientation serving in the armed forces is lawful.