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01 September 2016
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MB v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2016] UKSC 53, [2016] All ER (D) 40 (Aug)

 

The Supreme Court referred a question to the Court of Justice of the European Union, namely, whether Council Directive (EEC) 79/7 precluded the imposition in national law of a requirement that, in addition to satisfying the physical, social and psychological criteria for recognising a change of gender, a person who had changed gender had to also be unmarried in order to qualify for a state retirement pension. 

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