“…Mr Wise also referred us to the decision of the Supreme Court in R (Coll) v Secretary of State for Justice [2017] UKSC 40 | [2017] 1 WLR 2093. That was a case about the applicability of an exemption from the prohibition on direct discrimination on the ground of sex, if (a) a joint…”
“…003] UKHL 11, [2003] ICR 337, Lockwood v Department of Work and Pensions [2013] EWCA Civ 1195 [2014] 1 All ER 250 and R (Coll) v Secretary of State for Justice [2017] UKSC 40, [2017] 1 WLR 2093 but they do not appear to us to add anything about the requirements of a comparator beyond the plain words of section 23(1). The passages to…”
“…laration is too prescriptively phrased. I would prefer to follow the form of declaration made by the Supreme Court in R (Coll) v Secretary of State for Justice [2017] UKSC 40, [2017] 1 WLR 2093 at [45]. That would result in a declaration that the impugned provisions of the policy constitute indirect discrimination against Irish Trav…”