ECJ 12 January 2023, case C-356/21 (TP (Monteur audiovisuel pour la télévision publique)), Discrimination General, Sexual Orientation

JK – v – TP S.A., PTPA, Polish case

ECJ 12 January 2023, case C-356/21 (TP (Monteur audiovisuel pour la télévision publique)), Discrimination General, Sexual Orientation

JK – v – TP S.A., PTPA, Polish case

ECJ 23 April 2020, Case C-507/18 (Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI), Sexual orientation

NH - v - Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI – Rete Lenford (C-507/18), Italian case

ECJ 23 April 2020, Case C-507/18 (Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI), Sexual orientation

NH - v - Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI – Rete Lenford (C-507/18), Italian case

2019/3 It was not sexual orientation discrimination for a baker to refuse to provide a cake with a slogan supporting gay marriage (UK)

The Supreme Court has ruled that a baker’s refusal to provide a cake with a slogan supporting gay marriage was not sexual orientation discrimination, nor discrimination on grounds of political belief. The Northern Ireland bakery was owned by Christians who had religious objections to gay marriage (they thought Christian doctrine holds that marriage can only take place between a man and a woman). Gay marriage is not legal in Northern Ireland, although it is in the rest of the United Kingdom. Gay couples can enter into a ‘civil partnership’ in Northern Ireland, which formalises the relationship and provides it with legal recognition in a similar way to marriage.

2019/3 It was not sexual orientation discrimination for a baker to refuse to provide a cake with a slogan supporting gay marriage (UK)

The Supreme Court has ruled that a baker’s refusal to provide a cake with a slogan supporting gay marriage was not sexual orientation discrimination, nor discrimination on grounds of political belief. The Northern Ireland bakery was owned by Christians who had religious objections to gay marriage (they thought Christian doctrine holds that marriage can only take place between a man and a woman). Gay marriage is not legal in Northern Ireland, although it is in the rest of the United Kingdom. Gay couples can enter into a ‘civil partnership’ in Northern Ireland, which formalises the relationship and provides it with legal recognition in a similar way to marriage.

ECJ 15 January 2019, C-258/17 (EB), Discrimination, Sexual orientation

E.B. – v – Versicherungsanstalt öffentlich Bediensteter BVA, Austrian case

ECJ 15 January 2019, C-258/17 (EB), Discrimination, Sexual orientation

E.B. – v – Versicherungsanstalt öffentlich Bediensteter BVA, Austrian case

ECJ 24 November 2016, case C-443/15 (Parris), Sex discrimination

The ECJ found that a gay lecturer was not unlawfully discriminated against under an occupational pension scheme that did not entitle those over a certain age or sexual orientation to claim a survivor’s benefit for their (same-sex) civil partner or spouse.

ECJ 24 November 2016, case C-443/15 (Parris), Sex discrimination

The ECJ found that a gay lecturer was not unlawfully discriminated against under an occupational pension scheme that did not entitle those over a certain age or sexual orientation to claim a survivor’s benefit for their (same-sex) civil partner or spouse.