Source: Discrimination Case Law Digest Issue: 42 Date: 01-12-1999 Publisher: IRS

£20,000 award for injury to feelings

TOPICS:
terms, conditions and employee rights employment tribunals and courts
equal opportunities sex
tribunal procedures and penalties
health and safety workplace environment

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Baker v Portsmouth Football Club Ltd [1999] ET/3102233/98 (1 report)


A woman who "suffered considerably" as a result of sexual harassment and who fell into a lengthy period of depression in part because of the harassment was awarded compensation of £20,000 for injury to feelings, including £5,000 for aggravated damages, by a Southampton employment tribunal (Chair: N Jenkinson) in Baker v Portsmouth Football Club Ltd.

Julie Baker was employed by Portsmouth FC from May 1989 to June 1998, when she was dismissed.

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