25 February 2016
R (on the application of C) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2016] EWCA Civ 47, [2016] All ER (D) 107 (Feb)
The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissed the claimant’s appeal concerning whether, in the particular context of awarding jobseeker’s allowance, the state had unjustifiably interfered with the right of transgender persons to have information about their gender reassignment kept private. The court considered arguments advanced in respect of art 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, indirect discrimination, under both Convention and domestic law, and s 9 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
