Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Merit's Courts (England) - England and Wales Court of Appeal

Date: 07/09/2013

Subject: The Court deems discriminatory the refusal to rent a double room to a homosexual couple, because of the religious belief of the hotel owner, as had been already stated in a previous decision on a similar case. The judge, however, allows the decision to be appealed, on grounds of the doubt on the qualification of such behaviour as a direct or indirect discrimination, since the owner did not rent double rooms to heterosexual unmarried couples either

Parties: MICHAEL BLACK AND JOHN MORGAN v SUSANNE WILKINSON

Original language: English

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 10 Freedom of religion - Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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