All items: Disability discrimination

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  (1) James Murray & Co (Cupar) Ltd (2) The Scottish Provident Institution (Scottish Provident UK) v The Executors of the late Gary Soutar [2002] IRLR 22 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 April 2002

    Hilary Slater, consultant with Cobbetts solicitors, provides a round-up of decisions on discrimination.

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  A v Hounslow London BC [2001] All ER (D) 128 (Jul) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Risks of employing man with schizophrenia justified dismissal

    Date:

    17 December 2001

    In A v Hounslow, the EAT upholds a tribunal's decision that incalculable risks were presented by the employment of a man with schizophrenia as a laboratory technician at a school, in circumstances where he took no medication for his condition and had previously entertained fantasies of mass murder. The employer was justified in its decision to dismiss him upon the available information.

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  Abadeh v British Telecommunications plc [2001] IRLR 23 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Travel by normal means of transport is "normal day-to-day activity"

    Date:

    1 December 2000

    In Abadeh v British Telecommunications plc the EAT holds that, for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act, the question of what constitutes a "normal day-to-day activity" must be addressed without regard to whether or not the activity is normal to the particular applicant.

  • Effect of successful medical treatment

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    1 December 2000

    The EAT has ruled in Abadeh v British Telecommunications plc that the deduced effects provisions of the definition of disability, requiring the effects of medical treatment to be disregarded in determining whether an applicant is disabled, apply only where the treatment is continuing and do not apply where it has been successful.

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  Abbey Life Assurance Co Ltd v Tansell [2000] IRLR 387 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Scope of protection conferred on contract workers

    Date:

    1 June 2000

    In Abbey Life Assurance Co Ltd v Tansell, the Court of Appeal holds that a computer consultant, whose employer agreed with an agency to provide services for the agency to its client, was a "contract worker" for the agency's client.

  • End-user covered

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    1 June 2000

    In Abbey Life Assurance Co Ltd v Tansell the Court of Appeal has upheld the ruling of the EAT that a contract worker can bring a disability discrimination complaint directly against an "end-user" as a principal, even where there is no direct contractual relationship between the contract worker's employer and the end-user.

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  Abbey National plc v Fairbrother [2007] IRLR 320 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Abbey National plc v Fairbrother

    Date:

    23 January 2007

    In Abbey National plc v Fairbrother EAT/0084/06, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that, in the context of a constructive dismissal claim, the question that should be asked is whether the employer's actions during the grievance procedure fell within the range of reasonable responses.

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  Adams v Colchester & East Essex Co-operative Society Ltd [2002] ET/1500093/02 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 December 2002

    Hilary Slater, consultant with Cobbetts solicitors, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

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  Addison v Royal Mail Group plc [2006] ET/1401045/05 & ET/1401605/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 September 2006

    Tina McKevitt, lecturer in employment law at University of Sheffield, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

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  Advocate General's Opinion in FOA, acting on behalf of Karsten Kaltoft v Billund Kommune Case C-354/13 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Advocate General considers morbid obesity as a potential disability

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    18 July 2014

    The Advocate General has issued his opinion on the issue of discrimination on the ground of obesity, stating that, while there is no general principle of EU law prohibiting discrimination on the ground of obesity in its own right, morbid obesity may come within the meaning of "disability" (for the purpose of the Equal Treatment Directive (2000/78/EC)) if it is of such a degree as to hinder full participation in professional life on an equal footing with other employees.

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  Ahmed v Bedford Borough Council EAT/0064/13 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 September 2013

    Joe Beeston, Kate Edminson, Rosie Kight and David Rintoul are associate solicitors and Iain Naylor is a trainee solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Aitken v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2009] ET/2317823/07 & ET/2328817/08 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination in the police: employment tribunal decisions

    Date:

    22 September 2009

    This article summarises the main issues and outcomes in five tribunal cases brought by police officers under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Although the decisions are not binding on other tribunals, they provide useful illustrations for police forces of situations that have led to disability discrimination claims.