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Case round-up: Disability discrimination

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HM Prison Service v Beart (No.2) [2005] IRLR 568 CA (2 other reports)
- Disability discrimination update (2)
  
  Date:
  
  29 December 2006
  
  This article, the second in a two-part series on disability discrimination, looks at some of the recent key disability discrimination judgments.
- Disability discrimination: Second unlawful act does not extinguish liability for first
  
  Date:
  
  15 July 2005
  
  In HM Prison Service v Beart (No.2), the Court of Appeal holds that an employer cannot rely on its own second wrongful act to break the chain of causation for the first wrong and, thus, escape liability for damages for it. Liability for disability discrimination could not be avoided simply by dismissing the employee unfairly. Not only would this be unlawful, it would also be contrary to public policy.

This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering disability discrimination.

Disability discrimination

Beart v Prison Service, Court of Appeal, 26 April 2005

Beart stopped work because she was suffering from depression in September 1997, and never returned.

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Published date: 31 May 2005
Publisher: RBI
Source: Personnel Today

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