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R v Birmingham City Council, ex p Equal Opportunities Commission

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discriminate, though it may be relevant so far as remedies are concerned… is not a necessary condition to liability.’ That would be a bad idea because then ‘it would be a good defence for an employer to show that he discriminated against women not because he intended to do so but (for example) because of customer preference, or to save money, or even to avoid controversy.’
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Birmingham only provided 360 grammar school places for girls, and 540 for boys. At first instance, the EOC won. The Court of Appeal upheld this. The Council appealed, arguing it had not shown that selective education was better than non-selective education as a precondition to showing less favourable
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Lord Goff dismissed the council's appeal, saying first that it did not need to be shown that selective education was ‘better’, just that girls were not being given the same opportunities. Second, it is enough that there is less favourable treatment and the ‘intention or motive of the defendant to
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treatment, and in any case the council had no intention or motivation to discriminate.
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Michael Connolly. Discrimination Law. Sweet & Maxwell. 2006. Paras 4–006,
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case, concerning the appropriate comparisons that should be made.
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Collins, Ewing and McColgan. Labour Law: Text and Materials.
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LSG
UK labour law
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Equality Act 2010
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Stefanko v Doherty and Maritime Hotel Ltd
IRLR 322
Horsey v Dyfed County Council
R (EOC) v Birmingham City Council
James v Eastleigh BC
UKHL 6
Webb v EMO Air Cargo (UK) Ltd (No 2)
UKHL 13
Smith v Safeway plc
Grant v South-West Trains Ltd

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