Lucy Vickers is Professor of Law at Oxford Brookes University, where she is the Director of Research in the School of Law and Social Sciences. Her main research area is equality law and the protection of human rights within the workplace.
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Religious Discrimination, Headscarves and ‘exclusive neutrality’: backsliding by the CJEU
In OP v Commune d’Ans the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) returned to religious discrimination and headscarves, this time in the public sector workplace. Although the CJEU largely confirmed its previous position, the ...
Religious Discrimination and Headscarves – Take Two
In IX v WABE eV (C‑804/18) and MH Müller Handels GmbH v MJ (C‑341/19), the CJEU returned to the vexed question of religious discrimination and headscarves, last considered in the cases of Achbita and Bougnaoui.
IX, a nursery worker ...
Direct Discrimination and Indirect Discrimination: Headscarves and the CJEU
The decision of the CJEU in Achbita has been much anticipated as the first full judgment of the Court on discrimination based on religion and belief under Directive 2000/78. Although the facts of the cases are similar, the legal ...
An English Duty to Have ‘Due Regard’ – An Effective Means of Upholding Children’s Rights?
In its Third Report of Session 2016–17, scrutinising the Children and Social Work Bill, the Joint Committee on Human Rights recommends the introduction in England of a duty on public authorities to have due regard to the UN Convention ...
Conform or be confined: S.A.S. v France
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on 1st July that France’s ban on face coverings, known as the burqa-ban, does not breach the European Convention on Human Rights. The ban criminalises anyone wearing clothing designed to ...
