The Industrial Cases Reports
[2022] ICR 1423
Queen’s Bench Division
Green and others v Metropolitan Police Commissioner
[2022] EWHC 1286 (Admin)
2022 April 4, 5;
May 27
May 27
Fordham J
Pensions— Police pension scheme— Survivor’s pension— Scheme providing for cessation of survivor’s pension on cohabitation or remarriage— Exception where pension member dying in line of duty— Whether difference in treatment discrimination on ground of “other status”— Whether provision interfering with right to respect for family life and right to marry— Whether interference justified—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 12, 14, Pt II, art 1
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Police Pensions Regulations 1987 (SI 1987/257), Pt C9