The Weekly Law Reports
[1998] 2 WLR 735
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
KELLY Appellant And NORTHERN IRELAND HOUSING EXECUTIVE Respondent
LOUGHRAN Respondent And NORTHERN IRELAND HOUSING EXECUTIVE Appellant
1998 April 29,
30;
July 29
July 29
Lord Slynn of Hadley, Lord Griffiths, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, Lord Steyn and Lord Clyde
Discrimination
— Religious belief or political opinion
— Employment
— Applicant for employment
— Solicitors' firms applying for appointment to provide legal services
— Applications designating individual solicitors responsible for carrying out work
— Whether “contract personally to execute any work”
— Complaints by sole practitioner and by partner on failure to appoint
— Whether complainants “seeking employment”
— Whether appointment “qualification”
—
Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1976 (c. 25), ss. 17, 23, 57(1)