Court of AppealPublished: December 18, 2017Regina (Interim Executive Board of Al-Hijrah School) v HM Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and SkillsBefore Sir Terence Etherton, Master of the Rolls, Lady Justice Gloster and Lord Justice Beatson [2017] EWCA Civ 1426 Judgment: October 13, 2017Strict gender separation in a notionally co-educational school was a detriment that involved less favourable treatment because it diminished the quality of education that the girl pupils and the boy pupils would receive but for their respective sex, and accordingly amounted to direct sex discrimination contrary to sections 13 and 85 of the Equality Act 2010. The Court of Appeal so held, allowing the appeal of HM Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills, the most senior…

Source: The Times December 18, 2017 00:03 UTC