Four thorny cases of discrimination come under Ian Smith’s microscope in this week’s NLJ ‘Employment law brief’
Smith, barrister and professor of employment law at the Norwich Law School, provides the lowdown on the quad of tricky cases.
They concern appropriate comparators and how they interact with the burden of proof; a complex European Court of Justice ruling ‘on the vexed question of bans on face coverings (with an orthodox statement of the law but facts showing how complex its application can be)’; the justification defence in age cases; and the meaning of ‘related to’ in harassment law.
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