INTRODUCTION
… This highly publicised case on a bakery’s refusal to supply a cake iced with the words ‘Support Gay Marriage’ concerned discrimination on the grounds of political opinion and sexual orientation, and with it the bakery’s rights to free expression and religion. The case arose in the provision of goods, facilities and services (‘services’), but its ramifications could apply to all fields, including employment, the focus of this Note. The claim raised issues relevant to ‘indissociable’ and associative discrimination, indirect discrimination, as well as English v Sanderson. The judgment provided an incisive analysis of the claim of associative discrimination but declined to provide any enhanced guidance much beyond the immediate and novel facts …
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Michael Connolly, Lee v Ashers Baking and its Ramifications for Employment Law, Industrial Law Journal, https://doi-org.ucc.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwz008. Published: 4 June 2019.
First posted 2019-06-08 08:27:15
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