R v Employment Secretary, ex parte Equal Opportunities Commission [1995] 1 AC 1

Plaintiff was arguing that legislation in the UK was incompatible with directly effective EC directives that prohibited indirect gender discrimination.

HL found for Plaintiff, saying that it had “sufficient interest”.

The commission, under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 had a statutory duty to work towards the elimination of discrimination, giving it locus. NB the other plaintiff here was an individual worker, Mrs. Day.

• HL refused her standing because she already had a private law claim against her employers at industrial tribunal, which she had already made, she could not also seek JR. See Cane’s criticism