The WLR Daily case summaries
[2022] WLR(D) 29
Court of Appeal
MSR Partners LLP and others v Parr
[2022] EWCA Civ 24
2021 Dec 16;
2022 Jan 14
2022 Jan 14
Bean, Lewis, Elisabeth Laing LJJ
Discrimination— Age— Mandatory retirement age— Partnership agreement requiring accountant to retire at 60— Agreement also providing for discretion to allow members to continue beyond retirement age— Claimant demoted from equity partner to ordinary partner at retirement age— Claimant unable to share in proceeds of subsequent sale of business— Complaint of unlawful discrimination— Whether complaint presented in time— Whether alleged discrimination a one-off act or “conduct extending over a period”—
Equality Act 2010 (c 15), s 123(3)(a)