Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts England and Wales Court of Appeal

Date: 10/06/2015

Subject: The decision of the England and Wales Court of Appeal in which the Court states that the recognition of a lower survivor’s pension for a homosexual spouse than for a heterosexual one, due to the non retroactivity of the norms which legalized same-sex unions, is not in breach of the Equality Act, the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice and the ECHR

Parties: MINISTRY OF JUSTICE AND BETWEEN MR JOHN P D WALKER - and - INNOSPEC & ORS

Original language: English

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 9 Right to marry - Right to found a family - Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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