ABSTRACT
Discrimination is an area that has rapidly expanded recently. It has been affected greatly by European Court decisions, and is an area in which a complainant not only has rights under national law, but may also have rights under European law in the form of the Recast Equal Treatment Directive (2006/54/EC). Both discrimination and equal pay, discussed in Chapter 6, are areas in which European law has probably had the greatest impact and, to answer questions on these topics, it is necessary to underst and the relationship between national law and European law and how far an individual in a Member State can enforce European law in the national courts.
