Bull & Anor v Hall & Anor
[2013] UKSC 73
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…retirement age for men was 65. Hence any woman aged 60 to 64 could enter free but no man aged 60 to 64 could do so. Again, in Preddy v Bull [2013] UKSC 73; [2013] 1 WLR 3741, letting double-bedded rooms to married couples but not to civil partners was directly discriminatory because marriage was (at that time) in…
E, R (on the application of) v Governing Body of JFS & Anor
[2009] UKSC 15
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…t is also a well-established principle of equality law that the motive of the alleged discriminator is irrelevant: see, R (E) v Governing Body of JFS [2009] UKSC 15; [2010] 2 AC 728, eg at paras 13-20, citing R v Birmingham City Council, Ex p Equal Opportunities Commission [1989] AC 1155 and James v Eastleigh Bor…
RT (Zimbabwe) & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department
[2012] UKSC 38
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…ion but it has long been held that it does. A recent example in this jurisdiction is RT (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] UKSC 38; [2013] 1 AC 152. The issue was whether asylum seekers should be sent back to Zimbabwe where they would face a real risk of persecution if they refused to…
Commodore Royal Bahamas Defence Force & Ors v Laramore (Bahamas)
[2017] UKPC 13
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…51. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council took the same view in Commodore of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force v Laramore [2017] UKPC 13; [2017] 1 WLR 2752. The Board held that a Muslim petty officer had been hindered in the exercise of his constitutional right to freedom of conscience when he was obliged, on…