Something else I missed last week was this interesting Employment Appeal Tribunal case, dealing with the fairness of a dismissal during paternity leave. I spotted it because of a note posted at Lexology by Louise Fernandes […]

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 […]

Earlier this week the ECJ gave its ruling in case C-438/05 International Transport Workers’ Federation and Finnish Seamen’s Union v Viking Line – often simply called the Viking Line case. It’s the case Lord Wedderburn was […]

Heavens! What’s going on? I actually agree with what he says in the Times today about European free movement and discrimination law, and sport: it http://www.gooakley.com/ really is no good ministers or sports bodies trying […]

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 […]

The Times today has a few letters responding to the government and Lord Wedderburn on the Reform Treaty.

Robert Gutfreund Walmsley’s letter makes depressing eurosceptic reading. What does he mean by the dual nationality provision? There?s nothing new in […]

Writing to the Times, this time, about the Charter again and those cases he mentioned in the Telegraph last week.

I was interested that at the Conservative conference last week David Cameron made clear a future Tory government will try to opt out of the EU social chapter. Not that that’s new – as this story shows – though […]

I noticed an interesting letter in the Telegraph yesterday from Lord Wedderburn QC. It’s a bit cryptic, but I think he’s suggesting the ECJ might be about to create a new, enforceable right to strike.

The two cases […]

Last Thursday the ECJ gave judgment for the UK in infraction proceedings brought by the Commission. This is a major victory for the UK; and it might even turn out, one day, to be a milestone in the history […]