Recent Blog Posts

18/05/2012: Working Time Directive payment in lieu requirements only apply to minimum four weeks' statutory holi
16/05/2012: Enhanced CRB identity checking guidelines to be introduced
14/05/2012: Bankers' claims to bonuses from guaranteed minimum bonus pool upheld
10/05/2012: Reason for dismissal: misuse of social media
04/05/2012: Dancer at Stringfellows was an employee: issues of illegality and unfair dismissal remitted to tribu

Blog Archive

May 2012
18/05/2012: Working Time Directive payment in lieu requirements only apply to minimum four weeks' statutory holi
16/05/2012: Enhanced CRB identity checking guidelines to be introduced
14/05/2012: Bankers' claims to bonuses from guaranteed minimum bonus pool upheld
10/05/2012: Reason for dismissal: misuse of social media
04/05/2012: Dancer at Stringfellows was an employee: issues of illegality and unfair dismissal remitted to tribu
April 2012
30/04/2012: Maitland Walker entering the Mud Runner Oblivion 2012 at Eastnor Castle
26/04/2012: Sleeping employees not automatically unfairly dismissed for refusing to forego rest break
24/04/2012: Maitland Walker entering the Mud Runner Oblivion 2012 at Eastnor Castle
23/04/2012: EU discrimination law does not entitle unsuccessful candidates access to information
19/04/2012: Maitland Walker representing Addison Lee - Legality of PHV use of bus lanes
18/04/2012: Employee fairly dismissed for posting vulgar comments about colleague on Facebook
16/04/2012: It was just an email or two, not a contract
13/04/2012: Maitland Walker's muddy run!
12/04/2012: Migrant limit announcement
10/04/2012: Retirement notice must specify that the "right to request" comes from Schedule 6 of the Age Regulati
05/04/2012: TUPE: How should tribunals identify an "activity" in a service provision change?
02/04/2012: Sunday Trading (London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games) Bill
March 2012
30/03/2012: Termination payment: compromise agreement made director's option refund taxable
28/03/2012: National minimum wage rates from October 2012
23/03/2012: Apprenticeship, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009: prescribed form apprenticeship agreement
21/03/2012: BIS calls for evidence on dealing with dismissal and "compensated no-fault dismissal" for micro busi
19/03/2012: Marriage discrimination: less favourable treatment must be marriage specific
16/03/2012: Suggestion that aggrieved employee was "playing the race card" was direct discrimination
14/03/2012: Holiday pay and term-time workers
13/03/2012: Residential conveyancer triumphant at Crufts
12/03/2012: TUPE: change in location was substantial change to employees' material detriment
09/03/2012: High Court rules that lawful but unethical behaviour could be economic duress
07/03/2012: Auto - enrolment pensions: exemption re employers working in two EEA states
05/03/2012: Court of Session refers questions on associative pregnancy discrimination to ECJ
02/03/2012: "Trafficked" employee could not pursue claims based on illegal contract

Court of Appeal confirms that hotel could not discriminate on basis of sexual orientation

20 February 2012

The Court of Appeal has upheld a county court decision that a hotel had discriminated against gay civil partners on the grounds of their sexual orientation. The court said that only heterosexual married couples could comply with the hotel's precondition for letting double rooms to married couples only, because gay couples could not marry. Therefore the hotel directly discriminated against homosexual couples. It also said that the law was compatible with the hotel owners' right to manifest their religion, as they were only restricted from manifesting their religion in the commercial context that they had chosen, and not otherwise. (Bull and another v Hall and another [2012] EWCA Civ 83.)