Helen Marshall, a dietician working for Southampton and Southwest Hampshire area health authority instructed Bindmans after she was dismissed from her role despite wanting to continue working past her employer’s retirement age for women. In this episode discover how Bindmans represented Miss Marshall as she went to the European court and changed the law, not once, but twice: establishing first that differential retirement ages amounted to unlawful sex discrimination; and secondly that a limit on compensation in employment discrimination cases was unlawful.

Music by Joystock - www.joystock.org