Lords accuse gender ruling of "preventing true equality"

Lord Gordon of Strathblane has asked the government if it had “intervened” in the ECJ case. The court nonetheless ruled on 1 March that the practice of using gender as a factor in the calculation of premiums and benefits must cease, with effect from 21 December 2012. Speaking in the House of Lords on Tuesday, Baroness Verma said the UK government did make oral and written representations to the ECJ during the legal proceedings arguing that “rather than preventing true equality, the article in question ensured that different cases could be treated differently, thereby ensuring true equ...