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Age discrimination: Tribunal should have had regard to disadvantage suffered by employee

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    Loxley v BAE Systems (Munitions & Ordnance) Ltd [2008] IRLR 853 EAT (0 other reports)

In Loxley v BAE Systems Land Systems (Munitions & Ordnance) Ltd EAT/0156/08, the EAT held that an employment tribunal must have regard to the disadvantage sustained by an employee in order to determine whether or not the employer's treatment of the employee was a proportionate response to a legitimate aim.