The WLR Daily case summaries
[2012] WLR (D) 30
COUNTY COURT — Jurisdiction — Validity of subordinate legislation— Parties contending requirement of subordinate legislation incompatible with their Convention rights— — Whether judge in county court having power to strike down subordinate legislation
DISCRIMINATION — Sexual orientation — Less favourable treatment— Homosexual couple booking double-bedded room at private hotel — — Hoteliers refusing to honour booking — — Hoteliers holding genuine belief that sexual relations between heterosexual or homosexual couples outside marriage sinful — — Judge finding hoteliers’ conduct constituting unlawful direct discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation — — Whether finding of direct discrimination giving rise to incompatibility between hoteliers’ Convention right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion and couples’ Convention rights to respect for private and family life — — Whether direct discrimination— — Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007 (SI 2007/1263), reg 3(1)(4) — — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 9,14