REFERENCE TO THE COURT UNDER ARTICLE 177 OF THE EEC TREATY BY THE COURT OF APPEAL OF ENGLAND AND WALES FOR A PRELIMINARY RULING IN THE PROCEEDINGS PENDING BEFORE THAT COURT BETWEEN, SOUTHAMPTON AND SOUTH-WEST HAMPSHIRE AREA HEALTH AUTHORITY ( TEACHING ). (a minor suing by her mother and next friend S.G.) v Health Service Executive (Approved) [2022] IESC 14 (11 March 2022) Higgins v Irish Aviation Authority [2022] IESC 13_4 (07 March 2022) However, while direct effect would allow legal actions based on directives against the state ( vertical direct effect ), the ECJ did accept that the 'state' could . 1 (1986) and Foster v British Gas, Copyright 2023 StudeerSnel B.V., Keizersgracht 424, 1016 GC Amsterdam, KVK: 56829787, BTW: NL852321363B01, Tort Law Directions (Vera Bermingham; Carol Brennan), Criminal Law (Robert Wilson; Peter Wolstenholme Young), Commercial Law (Eric Baskind; Greg Osborne; Lee Roach), Marketing Metrics (Phillip E. Pfeifer; David J. Reibstein; Paul W. Farris; Neil T. 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Ritter; Rod J. 47 THAT VIEW IS BASED ON THE CONSIDERATION THAT IT WOULD BE INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE BINDING NATURE WHICH ARTICLE 189 CONFERS ON THE DIRECTIVE TO HOLD AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE THAT THE OBLIGATION IMPOSED THEREBY CANNOT BE RELIED ON BY THOSE CONCERNED . 45 FINALLY , BOTH THE RESPONDENT AND THE UNITED KINGDOM TAKE THE VIEW THAT THE PROVISIONS OF DIRECTIVE NO 76/207 ARE NEITHER UNCONDITIONAL NOR SUFFICIENTLY CLEAR AND PRECISE TO GIVE RISE TO DIRECT EFFECT . members of British Gas were appointed by a minister in the UK government IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTIONS REFERRED TO IT BY THE COURT OF APPEAL BY AN ORDER OF 12 MARCH 1984 , HEREBY RULES : ( 1 ) ARTICLE 5 ( 1 ) OF DIRECTIVE NO 76/207 MUST BE INTERPRETED AS MEANING THAT A GENERAL POLICY CONCERNING DISMISSAL INVOLVING THE DISMISSAL OF A WOMAN SOLELY BECAUSE SHE HAS ATTAINED OR PASSED THE QUALIFYING AGE FOR A STATE PENSION , WHICH AGE IS DIFFERENT UNDER NATIONAL LEGISLATION FOR MEN AND FOR WOMEN , CONSTITUTES DISCRIMINATION ON GROUNDS OF SEX , CONTRARY TO THAT DIRECTIVE . Price: 40/h for 1 or 2 hours. Helen Marshall, a senior dietitian, claimed that her dismissal on grounds of being old violated the Equal Treatment Directive 1976.She was an employee of an Area Health Authority (or "AHA"), a body established by the UK government under the National Health Service Act 1977, as amended by the Health Services Act 1980.. Marshall was dismissed after 14 years on 31 March 1980, approximately . 52 FINALLY , WITH REGARD TO THE QUESTION WHETHER THE PROVISION CONTAINED IN ARTICLE 5 ( 1 ) OF DIRECTIVE NO 76/207 , WHICH IMPLEMENTS THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY OF TREATMENT SET OUT IN ARTICLE 2 ( 1 ) OF THE DIRECTIVE , MAY BE CONSIDERED , AS FAR AS ITS CONTENTS ARE CONCERNED , TO BE UNCONDITIONAL AND SUFFICIENTLY PRECISE TO BE RELIED UPON BY AN INDIVIDUAL AS AGAINST THE STATE , IT MUST BE STATED THAT THE PROVISION , TAKEN BY ITSELF , PROHIBITS ANY DISCRIMINATION ON GROUNDS OF SEX WITH REGARD TO WORKING CONDITIONS , INCLUDING THE CONDITIONS GOVERNING DISMISSAL , IN A GENERAL MANNER AND IN UNEQUIVOCAL TERMS . that may cause loss of life, injury, or other health impacts, as well as damage and loss to property, infrastructure, livelihoods, service provision, ecosystems and environmental resources. according to article 189 of the EEC Treaty the binding nature of a directive, which constitutes the basis for the possibility of relying on the directive before a national court, exists only in relation to 'each member state to which it is addressed'. 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THEY ADMIT THAT A DIRECTIVE MAY , IN CERTAIN SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES , HAVE DIRECT EFFECT AS AGAINST A MEMBER STATE IN SO FAR AS THE LATTER MAY NOT RELY ON ITS FAILURE TO PERFORM ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE DIRECTIVE . 36 HOWEVER , IN VIEW OF THE FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY OF TREATMENT , WHICH THE COURT HAS REAFFIRMED ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS , ARTICLE 1 ( 2 ) OF DIRECTIVE NO 76/207 , WHICH EXCLUDES SOCIAL SECURITY MATTERS FROM THE SCOPE OF THAT DIRECTIVE , MUST BE INTERPRETED STRICTLY . Governmental Structure: Union Institutions I Every opinion and decision handed down by the Courts - Trial Courts, Appellate Courts and Supreme Courts, spanning Civil, Criminal, Family, Tax or Bankruptcy litigations are published here daily. Copyright in the individual extracts as listed in the acknowledgments. 8 HOWEVER , THE RESPONDENT WAS PREPARED , IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION , TO WAIVE ITS GENERAL RETIREMENT POLICY IN RESPECT OF A PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL IN PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES AND IT DID IN FACT WAIVE THAT POLICY IN RESPECT OF THE APPELLANT BY EMPLOYING HER FOR A FURTHER TWO YEARS AFTER SHE HAD ATTAINED THE AGE OF 60 . government. Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Tariefcommissie (case 26/62) [1963] ECR 1. - the claimant had been employed by the Southampton Health Authority and when she reached the age of 62 she was dismissed due to the fact that she had reached the authority's retirement age for . MOREOVER , IN THIS CASE THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN THE CONTRACTUAL RETIREMENT AGE AND THE QUALIFYING AGE FOR A SOCIAL SECURITY PENSION . Traffic Court Cases. [40] The appellant and the Commission consider that the question must be answered in the affirmative. 833 and Case 222/84Johnston v.Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary [1986] E.C.R. SINCE THE SITUATION IS THEREFORE THE SAME AS THAT IN THE BURTON CASE , THE FIXING BY THE CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT OF DIFFERENT RETIREMENT AGES LINKED TO THE DIFFERENT MINIMUM PENSIONABLE AGES FOR MEN AND WOMEN UNDER NATIONAL LEGISLATION DOES NOT CONSTITUTE UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATION CONTRARY TO COMMUNITY LAW . This, she The free movement of goods is an essential element of the internal market and both EU legislation and the decisions of the Court of Justice support the achievement of this aspect of economic integration. Euro Brokers Holdings Ltd v Monecor (London) Ltd. Case Summary of Euro Brokers Holdings Ltd v Monecor (London) Ltd [2003] 1 BCLC 506. Certain provisions of the treaties and legislative acts such as regulations are capable of being directly enforced horizontally. nationalised industry at the time (before being privatised under the Gas Act v Ministry for Finance of the Italian Republic (Case 43-71) [1971] ECR 1039. 21 BY THE FIRST QUESTION THE COURT OF APPEAL SEEKS TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER OR NOT ARTICLE 5 ( 1 ) OF DIRECTIVE NO 76/207 MUST BE INTERPRETED AS MEANING THAT A GENERAL POLICY CONCERNING DISMISSAL , FOLLOWED BY A STATE AUTHORITY , INVOLVING THE DISMISSAL OF A WOMAN SOLELY BECAUSE SHE HAS ATTAINED OR PASSED THE QUALIFYING AGE FOR A STATE PENSION , WHICH AGE IS DIFFERENT UNDER NATIONAL LEGISLATION FOR MEN AND FOR WOMEN , CONSTITUTES DISCRIMINATION ON GROUNDS OF SEX , CONTRARY TO THAT DIRECTIVE . 14 ARTICLE 2 ( 1 ) OF THE DIRECTIVE PROVIDES THAT : ' . As it should be clear that AHA is in no position to implement the directive itself, some commentators have regarded this decision as a start of slippery slope to introduce horizontal effect, even though in letter the decision says otherwise.[3]. 36. This case involved an application for a preliminary ruling. In the case of St. Marys Church of England School, the court of appeal concluded that satisfying the Foster test as if it was a statutory definition wasnt was wrong and that if two limbs of the test were satisfied, that would be enough. 20 OBSERVATIONS WERE SUBMITTED TO THE COURT BY THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE COMMISSION , IN ADDITION TO THE APPELLANT AND THE RESPONDENT . The provision is therefore sufficiently precise to be relied on by an individual and to be applied by the national courts. 42 THE COMMISSION IS OF THE OPINION THAT THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 5 ( 1 ) OF DIRECTIVE NO 76/207 ARE SUFFICIENTLY CLEAR AND UNCONDITIONAL TO BE RELIED UPON BEFORE A NATIONAL COURT . was not necessarily consistent with the requirement of ensuring real equality In Case 152/84 Marshall v Southampton and South-West Hampshire Area Health Authority (Teaching) [1986] ECR 723, the Court of Justice created an artificial and arbitrary barrier to the horizontal enforcement of directives. 6 IN THAT RESPECT IT APPEARS FROM THE DOCUMENTS BEFORE THE COURT THAT THE RESPONDENT HAS FOLLOWED A GENERAL POLICY SINCE 1975 THAT ' THE NORMAL RETIREMENT AGE WILL BE THE AGE AT WHICH SOCIAL SECURITY PENSIONS BECOME PAYABLE ' . 10 THE INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNAL DISMISSED THE APPELLANT ' S CLAIM IN SO FAR AS IT WAS BASED ON INFRINGEMENT OF THE SEX DISCRIMINATION ACT , SINCE SECTION 6 ( 4 ) OF THAT ACT PERMITS DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUND OF SEX WHERE IT ARISES OUT OF ' PROVISION IN RELATION TO RETIREMENT ' ; THE INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNAL TOOK THE VIEW THAT THE RESPONDENT ' S GENERAL POLICY CONSTITUTED SUCH PROVISION . - Directives do not have horizontal effect as per Marshall v Southampton Health and South West Area Health Authority (Case C - 152/84) [1986] ECR 723. Marshall v Southampton Area Health Authority (case 152/84) [1986] ECR 723; [1986] 1 CMLR 688. 56 CONSEQUENTLY , THE ANSWER TO THE SECOND QUESTION MUST BE THAT ARTICLE 5 ( 1 ) OF COUNCIL DIRECTIVE NO 76/207 OF 9 FEBRUARY 1976 , WHICH PROHIBITS ANY DISCRIMINATION ON GROUNDS OF SEX WITH REGARD TO WORKING CONDITIONS , INCLUDING THE CONDITIONS GOVERNING DISMISSAL , MAY BE RELIED UPON AS AGAINST A STATE AUTHORITY ACTING IN ITS CAPACITY AS EMPLOYER , IN ORDER TO AVOID THE APPLICATION OF ANY NATIONAL PROVISION WHICH DOES NOT CONFORM TO ARTICLE 5 ( 1 ). Sir Keir Starmer was facing a crisis on two fronts last night as a witness prepared to tell police the Labour leader's lockdown curry had broken pandemic rules and a leaked document appeared to . IN VIEW OF THE FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY OF TREATMENT FOR MEN AND WOMEN , ARTICLE 1 ( 2 ) OF DIRECTIVE NO 76/207 ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT PRINCIPLE AS REGARDS ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS , WHICH EXCLUDES SOCIAL SECURITY MATTERS FROM THE SCOPE OF THE DIRECTIVE , MUST BE INTERPRETED STRICTLY . 76/207, which implements the principle of equality of treatment set out in Article 2(1) of the directive, may be considered, as far as its contents are concerned, to be unconditional and sufficiently precise to be relied upon by an individual as against the State, it must be stated that the provision, taken by itself, prohibits any discrimination on grounds of sex with regard to working conditions, including the conditions governing dismissal, in a general manner and in unequivocal terms. [13] Marshall v Southampton and South Wales Hampshire Area Health Authority [1993] 4 All ER 586, CJEC. Google Scholar. M. H. Marshall v Southampton and South-West Hampshire Area Health Authority (Teaching). MARSHALL ( HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS ' THE APPELLANT ' ) AND SOUTHAMPTON AND SOUTH-WEST HAMPSHIRE AREA HEALTH AUTHORITY ( TEACHING ) ( HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS ' THE RESPONDENT ' ) CONCERNING THE QUESTION WHETHER THE APPELLANT ' S DISMISSAL WAS IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 6 ( 4 ) OF THE SEX DISCRIMINATION ACT 1975 AND WITH COMMUNITY LAW . THE PROPOSED DIRECTIVE WOULD , ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 2 ( 1 ) THEREOF , APPLY TO ' BENEFITS INTENDED TO SUPPLEMENT THE BENEFITS PROVIDED BY STATUTORY SOCIAL SECURITY SCHEMES OR TO REPLACE THEM ' . On the other hand in Griffin v South West Water the national court considered that a privatised water company was an emanation of the state, while the body itself was not as such under the control of the state, certain parts of the services it operated were. . THE COURT OF APPEAL STATES THAT , ALTHOUGH THAT POLICY WAS NOT EXPRESSLY MENTIONED IN THE APPELLANT ' S CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT , IT NONE THE LESS CONSTITUTED AN IMPLIED TERM THEREOF . IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES , IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO JUSTIFY THE DISMISSAL OF A WOMAN FOR REASONS BASED ON HER SEX AND AGE . However, even though the case affirmed that there would be no horizontal effect, it still found the AHA possibly in breach of the directive if it would be deemed a state actor. Do you want to help improving EUR-Lex ? This therefore indicates that the article seems to suggest that directives are not intended to operate as law within national systems, since that is the role envisaged for the relevant national implementing measures.This therefore leads to the problem that directives are addressed to Member States and therefore individuals are not expected to be held liable for a states failure to implement or be held liable for something that is addressed to a Member State as a form of instructions. She was an employee of an Area Health Authority (or "AHA"), a body established by the UK government under the National Health Service Act 1977, as amended by the Health Services Act 1980. Helen Marshall, a senior dietitian, claimed that her dismissal on grounds of being old violated the Equal Treatment Directive 1976.She was an employee of an Area Health Authority (or "AHA"), a body established by the UK government under the National Health Service Act 1977, as amended by the Health Services Act 1980.. Marshall was dismissed after 14 years on 31 March 1980 . HOWEVER , THE CLAIM THAT THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY OF TREATMENT LAID DOWN BY DIRECTIVE NO 76/207 HAD BEEN INFRINGED WAS UPHELD BY THE INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNAL . EU Law Assignment by Mark Ryder (1571728) The case of Marshall v Southampton and South West Hampshire Area Health Authority (Teaching) (Marshall (No.1)) [1986] 1 C.M.L.R. Judgement for the case Marshall v Southampton and South West Hampshire Area Health Authority (no.2) This related to the case of Marshall no.1 (see above under "General Reading"). Van Duyn v The Home Office (case 41/74) [1974] ECR 1337. ECJ said that limits to compensation go against the meaning of the directive, whose objective is the FULL compensation of unequal treatment, while interest must be payable since full compensation needs to take into account the passage of time. 35 AS THE COURT EMPHASIZED IN ITS JUDGMENT IN THE BURTON CASE , ARTICLE 7 OF DIRECTIVE NO 79/7 EXPRESSLY PROVIDES THAT THE DIRECTIVE DOES NOT PREJUDICE THE RIGHT OF MEMBER STATES TO EXCLUDE FROM ITS SCOPE THE DETERMINATION OF PENSIONABLE AGE FOR THE PURPOSES OF GRANTING OLD-AGE AND RETIREMENT PENSIONS AND THE POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES THEREOF FOR OTHER BENEFITS FALLING WITHIN THE STATUTORY SOCIAL SECURITY SCHEMES . First, whether the respondent's dismissal on the grounds that she was a woman who had passed the normal retiring age was an act of discrimination prohibited by the Directive. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CASE-LAW OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS , THOSE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES MUST BE GIVEN A WIDE INTERPRETATION AND , CONVERSELY , ANY EXCEPTION THERETO , SUCH AS THE RESERVATION PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE 1 ( 2 ) OF DIRECTIVE NO 76/207 WITH REGARD TO SOCIAL SECURITY , MUST BE INTERPRETED STRICTLY . Marshall v Southampton and South-West Hampshire Area Health Authority Notes on Academic Writings X: Discriminatory Retirement Ages, European Industrial Relations Review 1986 n 148 p.18-21 Jacobs, A.T.J.M. Marshall v Southampton Area Health Authority (case 152/84) [1986] ECR 723; [1986] 1 CMLR 688. IT FOLLOWS THAT A DIRECTIVE MAY NOT OF ITSELF IMPOSE OBLIGATIONS ON AN INDIVIDUAL AND THAT A PROVISION OF A DIRECTIVE MAY NOT BE RELIED UPON AS SUCH AGAINST SUCH A PERSON . discrimination on grounds of sex, contrary to the Equal Treatment Directive 46 IT IS NECESSARY TO RECALL THAT , ACCORDING TO A LONG LINE OF DECISIONS OF THE COURT ( IN PARTICULAR ITS JUDGMENT OF 19 JANUARY 1982 IN CASE 8/81 BECKER V FINANZAMT MUNSTER-INNENSTADT ( 1982 ) ECR 53 ), WHEREVER THE PROVISIONS OF A DIRECTIVE APPEAR , AS FAR AS THEIR SUBJECT-MATTER IS CONCERNED , TO BE UNCONDITIONAL AND SUFFICIENTLY PRECISE , THOSE PROVISIONS MAY BE RELIED UPON BY AN INDIVIDUAL AGAINST THE STATE WHERE THAT STATE FAILS TO IMPLEMENT THE DIRECTIVE IN NATIONAL LAW BY THE END OF THE PERIOD PRESCRIBED OR WHERE IT FAILS TO IMPLEMENT THE DIRECTIVE CORRECTLY . 28 THE RESPONDENT MAINTAINS , IN CONTRAST , THAT ACCOUNT MUST BE TAKEN , IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BURTON CASE , OF THE LINK WHICH IT CLAIMS EXISTS BETWEEN THE RETIREMENT AGES IMPOSED BY IT IN THE CONTEXT OF ITS DISMISSAL POLICY , ON THE ONE HAND , AND THE AGES AT WHICH RETIREMENT AND OLD-AGE PENSIONS BECOME PAYABLE UNDER THE STATE SOCIAL SECURITY SCHEME IN THE UNITED KINGDOM , ON THE OTHER . Marshall argued that her employer would not have been able to treat a man the same way. 780; Case 262/84, Mrs. Vera M. Beets-Proper v. Van . (then 76/207/EEC, and now recast in 2006/54/EC). [46] It is necessary to recall that, according to a long line of decisions of the Court (in particular its judgment of 19 January 1982 in Case 8/81 Becker v Finanzamt Minister-Innenstadt [1982] ECR 53), wherever the provisions of a directive appear, as far as their subject-matter is concerned, to be unconditional and sufficiently precise, those provisions may be relied upon by an individual against the State where that State fails to implement the directive in national law by the end of the period prescribed or where it fails to implement the directive correctly. 1 (1986), Ms. Marshall was dismissed from her post at Southampton Area Health Where financial compensation was the measure adopted to restore a situation European Court reports 1986 Page 00723 Directives are usually incapable of being horizontally directly effective. 6 . (a secretary of state), which could also issue to the board various directions. The three limb test set out by the case of Foster , was also accompanied by the ECJ referring to previous decisions indicating that directives can also be invoked against tax authorities, this can be seen in the case Becker v Hauptzollamt Munster Innerstadt, local or regional authorities such as the case Fratelli Costanzo v commune de Milano, authorities responsible for the maintenance of public order and safety which is illustrated in the case of Johnston v RUC, and public health authorities. 18 ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 7 ( 1 ) THEREOF , THE DIRECTIVE IS TO BE : ' WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE RIGHT OF MEMBER STATES TO EXCLUDE FROM ITS SCOPE : ( A ) THE DETERMINATION OF PENSIONABLE AGE FOR THE PURPOSES OF GRANTING OLD-AGE AND RETIREMENT PENSIONS AND THE POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES THEREOF FOR OTHER BENEFITS ' . This decision confirmed directives cannot create obligations for private parties nor can they be invoked against one. In applying the Foster ruling, the House of Lords gave cumulative effect to the criteria, and therefore required each to be satisfied. predecessor (Macarthys Ltd. v. Smith, 1981), to work to age sixty-five (Marshall v. Southampton and S.W. 23 ACCORDING TO THE APPELLANT , THE SAID AGE LIMIT FALLS WITHIN THE TERM ' WORKING CONDITIONS ' WITHIN THE MEANING OF ARTICLES 1 ( 1 ) AND 5 ( 1 ) OF DIRECTIVE NO 76/207 . Marshall v Southampton and South West Area Health Authority No. 76/207 are neither unconditional nor sufficiently clear and precise to give rise to direct effect. In either case it is necessary to prevent the State from taking advantage of its own failure to comply with Community law. In Doughty V Rolls Royce plc , a publicly owned manufacturing company was held not to be an emanation of the state since it failed the first and third criteria of the Foster Test. 5 . 3 THE APPELLANT , WHO WAS BORN ON 4 FEBRUARY 1918 , WAS EMPLOYED BY THE RESPONDENT FROM JUNE 1966 TO 31 MARCH 1980 . Gagosian Assistant To Director, 7 ). Although according to United Kingdom constitutional law the health authorities created by the National Health Service Act 1977, as amended by the Health Services Act 1980 and other legislation are Crown bodies and their employees are Crown servants, nevertheless the administration of the National Health Service by the health authorities is regarded as being separate from the Government's central administration and its employees are not regarded as civil servants. The fact that directives can only be vertically effective inevitably creates major anomalies and injustices where an applicants case is against another individual or a private body. 2010-2023 Oxbridge Notes. [Case closed] Main proceedings. 24 ), WHICH THE MEMBER STATES WERE TO TRANSPOSE INTO NATIONAL LAW , ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 8 ( 1 ) THEREOF , WITHIN SIX YEARS OF ITS NOTIFICATION . 44 WITH REGARD TO THE LEGAL POSITION OF THE RESPONDENT ' S EMPLOYEES THE UNITED KINGDOM STATES THAT THEY ARE IN THE SAME POSITION AS THE EMPLOYEES OF A PRIVATE EMPLOYER . 5 ACCORDING TO THE ORDER FOR REFERENCE , THE SOLE REASON FOR THE DISMISSAL WAS THE FACT THAT THE APPELLANT WAS A WOMAN WHO HAD PASSED ' THE RETIREMENT AGE ' APPLIED BY THE RESPONDENT TO WOMEN . The preliminary ruling procedure was used in a long case of M H Marshall v Southampton and South-West Hampshire Area Health Authority (Teaching) [1986] EUECJ R-152/84 [23] where a lady was discriminated against when terminating her contract. ON 5 MAY 1983 THE COMMISSION SUBMITTED TO THE COUNCIL A PROPOSAL FOR A DIRECTIVE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUAL TREATMENT FOR MEN AND WOMEN IN OCCUPATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY SCHEMES ( OFFICIAL JOURNAL 1983 , C 134 , P . The Tribunal had awarded, in compliance with an EC directive, a payment including interest. 14 Pfander (n 5) 252. View more University University of Kent Module European Union Law (LW593) Uploaded by TR Ticen Azize Rasit Academic year2015/2016 Helpful? The ECJ, in a full court of 13 judges, answered to the first question that a general policy concerning dismissal if a woman solely because she has attained the qualifying age for a state pension, which age is different for men and for women, constitutes discrimination on grounds of sex and as such is in breach of the directive. Marshall v Southampton Health Authority 1986 Directives ~may not of itself impose obligations on an individual~ therefore there is no horizontal direct effect. 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