[85] More generally, in Lopez v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (1993), 26 B.C.A.C. 142, 78 B.C.L.R. (2d) 157, Hollinrake J.A., writing for the court
at para. 21, held that an «insured
claim» for the purposes of the Regulations must still import
at least some
element of insurance.
Founding on the leading authority of Edebi v Canary Wharf Management Ltd [2006] IRLR 416, [2006] All ER (D) 03 (Apr) with its emphasis on the employer being given the essence of what he has to respond to, Smith LJ here held that the comparative
element of an equal pay
claim is so vital to the cause of action that the employee, in raising the grievance
at stage 1 of the statutory procedure, must give «some specification of comparator,
at least by reference to job or job type, in the grievance document».