“…troduced in 2011 was cost” and that the saving of costs could not in law by itself amount to a legitimate aim, relying on Woodcock v Cumbria Primary Care Trust [2012] EWCA Civ 330, [2012] ICR 1126. It rejected that submission at para. 57 of the Reasons, which reads:…”
“…e cost was a legitimate aim for the purposes of justifying age discrimination there was a valid distinction between costs (as defined in Woodcock v Cumbria PCT [2012] EWCA Civ 330 and Cross v British Airways plc [2005] IRLR 423 as including saving of costs) and an absence of means.…”