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  • Directive 2004/38: Commision skirts the gay marriage issue

    Carl Gardner
    July 24, 2009

    Last month, when talking about the big Californian case about Proposition 8, I mentioned the unexploded bomb created by articles 2, 3 and 4 of Directive 2004/38 on the free movement rights of EU citizens and their families: they […]

    Tags: discrimination, eu law, european commission, free movement, sexual orientation
  • Thoughts on Proposition 8

    Carl Gardner
    June 1, 2009

    Last Tuesday, the California Supreme Court decided to uphold “Proposition 8”, an amendment to the state’s constitution passed by a referendum last November. Here’s the opinion, and a press release summarising it. Proposition 8 amends the constitution so […]

    Tags: family, marriage, sexual orientation
  • Islington v Ladele: sanity restored

    Carl Gardner
    January 19, 2009

    Something I’ve not yet commented on since my part facultative-festive and part enforced-technological break is the welcome restoration of sense and good legal analysis to the field of religious discrimination by the Employment Appeal Tribunal, which has reversed

    Tags: discrimination, employment, human rights, religion, sexual orientation
  • Ladele v Islington

    Carl Gardner
    July 11, 2008

    The other court case that has attracted massive interest this week has of course been that of Lillian Ladele, who, an Employment Tribunal has found, was both directly and indirectly discriminated against on grounds of her religion, and was […]

    Tags: employment, human rights, religion, sexual orientation
  • California: gay people have right to marry

    Carl Gardner
    May 16, 2008

    I’m blogging lite, as you know, but must while in the U.S. of A. mention the decision of the California Supreme Court, which has ruled that gay people have a constitutional right to marry their same-sex partners, just as […]

    Tags: discrimination, family, human rights, sexual orientation, US constitution
  • Case C-267/06 Tadao Maruko: discrimination against civil partners

    Carl Gardner
    April 8, 2008

    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 […]

    Tags: discrimination, eu law, pensions, sexual orientation
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