Bosses can still force retirement at 65, Supreme Court rules

City law firm partner Leslie Seldon brought the case against his former employer, Clarkson Wright and Jakes, after was his request to continue working past the age of 65 was rejected. He made the request before the default retirement age was scrapped in October last year. The law firm told him there was "no sufficient business need" for him to stay on. He then started an age discrimination claim which ended up in the Supreme Court. The case was unanimously rejected by judges in the country's highest court of law, after a series of appeals. Seldon had argued the partners' decisio...