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Discriminatory dismissal damaged health

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    Smith v Swithland Motors plc [1994] IT/18926/91 (0 other reports)

A car salesman whose health suffered as a direct result of sex discrimination when he was dismissed because he was a man is awarded £15,000 compensation, including £5,000 for injury to feelings, by a Birmingham industrial tribunal (Chair: J K Macmillan) in Smith v Swithland Motors plc.

Mr Smith was employed as a car salesman by Colmore Depot Ltd, which went into receivership in December 1990.