Coker and Osamor v Lord Chancellor and Lord Chancellor’s Department: ET 28 Jul 1999

It was capable of being indirect sex-discrimination to appoint a person to a post from a circle of friends. This would necessarily restrict appointees to a group which favoured men more than women. The requirement that the Lord Chancellor should appoint someone in whom he had an established faith had not been established.

Citations:

Gazette 28-Jul-1999, [1999] IRLR 396

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

Appeal fromCoker and Osamor v The Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chancellor’s Department CA 22-Nov-2001
The Lord Chancellor’s action in appointing to a special adviser’s post someone he already knew and trusted, without first advertising the post openly, was not an act of sex or race discrimination. Had they applied, they would not have been appointed . .
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Discrimination, Employment, Administrative

Updated: 25 October 2022; Ref: scu.79266