London, England, UK. El Vino wine merchants shop in Fleet Street

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Gill and Coote v El Vino Ltd [1983] QB 425 Two women, a lawyer (Tess Gill) and a journalist (Anna Coote), successfully challenged the bar’s ban on women being served at the bar. It established that ‘courtesy’ and propriety could not be used to justify unequal treatment.

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