Index card Preston v Wolverhampton Healthcare NHS Trust (No 2)

Preston v Wolverhampton Healthcare NHS Trust (No 2)

Hearings

England & Wales

08 Feb 2001 [2001] UKHL 5; [2001] 2 AC 455; [2001] 2 WLR 448; [2001] ICR 217; [2001] 3 All ER 947, HL(E)

Additional names

Fletcher v Midland Bank plc

Subject Matter

DISCRIMINATION — Sex — Equal pay — Part-time employees' retrospective claims time-barred and restricted by national legislation — Whether legislation compatible with Community law — Successive contracts of employment with same employer within stable employment relationship — Whether six-month limitation period running from end of last contract — Equal Pay Act 1970, s 2(4)(5) (as amended by Sex Discrimination Act 1975, s 8(6), Sch 1, Pt I, para 2) — Occupational Pension Schemes (Equal Access to Membership) Regulations 1976, reg 12(1)(b) — EC Treaty, art 119

[2001] 2 AC 455; [2001] 2 WLR 448; [2001] ICR 217

Appellate History

Preston v Wolverhampton Healthcare NHS Trust (No 2) [1997] ICR 899, CA

Decision of the Court of Appeal varied.

Preston v Wolverhampton Healthcare NHS Trust (No 2) [2001] UKHL 5; [2001] 2 AC 455; [2001] 2 WLR 448; [2001] ICR 217; [2001] 3 All ER 947, HL(E)

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