Press reactions to the European Court of Justice’s decision in the recent obesity discrimination case are “ill-founded”, Sean Jones QC, of 11 KBW, writes in this week’s NLJ. The court held that obesity could be a disability but that it all depended on the circumstances. Critics of the decision complained that obesity is a person’s own fault, but Jones says it may be caused by a medical condition and, besides, nothing in either European or domestic law suggests that fault is relevant.
15 January 2015
Obesity reactions
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