LIST OF CASES / Hill v Evans IT 1997

IT Case no 33528/96 in the Stratford Industrial Tribunal, heard on 12th May 1997

NOTES

Mrs V.A. Hill v Mr Barry Evans,case 13528/96 heard by the Stratford Industrial Tribunal on 12th May 1997.

It is generally unlawful to turn down a job applicant because she is pregnant. This case is:

An example of

the difficulty of applying European law in the UK. Unlike the UK common law system, the European "civil law" tradition allows judgments to take political and social correctness directly into account. This case is yet another example of the sometimes unexpected results which can follow when ECJ judgments are treated and applied by UK courts and tribunals in the same way as judgments of the higher UK courts.

For general notes see Sex discrimination/pregnancy and maternity .

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