An interesting post at EU Law Blog about last week’s ECJ judgment in this case, about survivors’ pension and sexuality discrimination. It’s amazing, I always think, how fundamental EC discrimination law – human rights law, you might call […]

New appointees to the High Court bench are, it turns out, embarrassingly white, male, public-schooly and barristerial. I wish I could argue that true appointment on merit may or may not result in more black and women appointees, more […]

The Court of Appeal gave judgment yesterday in an interesting disability discrimination case about mental illness.

Elizabeth McDougall applied for a job at the college in 2005, and got it – subject to medical checks. But when those […]

In its judgment today in case C-411/05 Palacios de la Villa , the ECJ has ruled that Directive 2000/78, which outlaws discrimination on grounds of age, does not prevent member states from legislating so as to permit compulsory […]

Nearly Legal – an excellent blawg with particular strength in housing law – wrote interestingly the other day about Margaret Hodge’s comment about economic migrants and access to social housing.

But isn’t the position for EU citizens

Today Le Monde reports that the Cour d’Appel in Amiens in northern France has ruled that a child can be adopted by the lesbian civil partner of his birth mother. The two women have been in a

So, there was third way of sorts, but only in the sense that catholic adoption agencies have time to get used to the non-discriminatory future.

I have to say I think this whole episode has been a communications […]

None of us have seen a draft of these regulations yet, but no doubt a draft exists somewhere on a PC belonging to some lawyer in the Department for Communities and Local Government. One thing’s for sure: the exact wording […]