The Weekly Law Reports
[1979] 1 WLR 1189
[COURT OF APPEAL]
MACARTHYS LTD.
v.
SMITH
NOTE
1979 May 22,
23,
24,
25;
July 19; 25
July 19; 25
Lord Denning M.R., Lawton and Cumming-Bruce L.JJ.
Discrimination
— Sex
— Equal pay
— “Like work”
— Comparison of work with predecessor's
— Whether comparison required to be contemporaneous
— Reference to European Court of Justice
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Equal Pay Act 1970 (c. 41), s. 1 (2) (as amended by Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c. 65), s. 8)
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E.E.C. Treaty (Cmnd. 5179—II), art. 119