Schnorbus v Land Hessen: ECJ 7 Dec 2000

ECJ Equal treatment for men and women – Rules on access to practical legal training in Land Hesse – Priority for applicants who have completed military or civilian service
Jacobs AG said: ‘The discrimination is direct where the difference in treatment is based on a criterion which is either explicitly that of sex or necessarily linked to a characteristic indissociable from sex. It is indirect where some other criterion is applied but a substantially higher proportion of one sex than of the other is in fact affected.’
Advocate General Jacobs said:
‘The discrimination is direct where the difference in treatment is based on a criterion which is either explicitly that of sex of necessarily linked to a characteristic indissociable from sex. It is indirect where some other criterion is applied but a substantially higher proportion of one sex than of the other is in fact affected.’

Judges:

Jacobs AG

Citations:

[2000] ECR I-10997, C-79/99, [2001] 1 CMLR 40, [2000] EUECJ C-79/99

Links:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

European

Cited by:

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Discrimination

Updated: 04 June 2022; Ref: scu.162619