Activities done by only one sex are "normal"

This report relates to 1 case(s)

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  Ekpe v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2001] IRLR 605 EAT (3 other reports)

  • Devil in the detail

    Date:

    1 March 2002

    The complexities of the Disability Discrimination Act make it easy to slip up in practice. There are areas in which occupational health and personnel practitioners really need to be on their toes

  • Disability discrimination: Putting rollers in hair and applying make-up are "normal day-to-day activities"

    Date:

    15 July 2001

    In Ekpe v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the EAT reverses an employment tribunal's decision that a woman with an impairment of her right hand, constituting a weakness of some of the muscles required for its full function, did not have a disability for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

  • Tribunal's assessment of disability was unfair

    Date:

    1 July 2001

    When determining a disability discrimination claim, a tribunal should have considered the tasks the plaintiff could not, rather than could, perform. Plus, cases on constructive dismissal, disciplinary hearings and finding a race discrimination comparator.