update on Jessy Saint Prix

Further to the Supreme Court’s October 2012 judgment in Jessy Saint Prix v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions - that relates to whether an EU national who left work due to pregnancy retained a right to reside in the UK - the Aire Centre hs published an update on proceedings in the ECJ

http://www.airecentre.org/news.php/115/press-release-jessy-saint-prix-v-secretary-of-state-for-work-and-pensions

Advocate General Wahl is due to deliver his opinion on the case on 12 December 2013.

shawn - 22 November 2013 10:33 AM

Advocate General Wahl is due to deliver his opinion on the case on 12 December 2013.

Here it is

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:62012CC0507:EN:HTML

CJEU has decided, in favour of Jessy Saint Prix, that a woman who stops working or work seeking in the late stages of pregnancy and after child is born can retain worker status provided she returns to work or finds another job within a reasonable period after confinement -

here’s press release - still waiting for judgment itself -

http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-06/cp140086en.pdf
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here’s the judgment - rightsnet news story to follow -

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=153814&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=req&dir;=&occ=first&part=1&cid=380170

here’s rightsnet news story -

http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/news/story/whether-eu-national-who-left-work-due-to-pregnancy-retained-right-to-r

here’s the AIRE Centre’s comment on the judgment

http://www.airecentre.org/news.php/140/cjeu-judgement-in-saint-prix

We’ve just been informed that the Supreme Court has now ratified this decision.