All items: Direct discrimination

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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.

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  Aitken v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2011] EWCA Civ 582 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability: police officer not discriminated against over threatening behaviour

    Date:

    26 May 2011

    The Court of Appeal has given short shrift to a police officer's disability discrimination claim over his police force's actions after he displayed violent tendencies at a Christmas party that led his colleagues to fear for their safety. 

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  Aitken v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis EAT/0226/09 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Police force did not discriminate against officer who appeared to present danger to colleagues and public

    Date:

    15 December 2010

    In Aitken v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis EAT/0226/09, the EAT held that, in assessing whether or not a police officer who had displayed violent tendencies had been discriminated against, the employment tribunal was entitled to have regard to the need for a police officer not to appear to present a danger to colleagues or the public.

  • Disability: police force did not discriminate against police officer with violent tendencies

    Date:

    29 June 2010

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a police force did not discriminate against a police officer who displayed violent tendencies at a Christmas party that led his colleagues to fear for their safety. 

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  Aylott v Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council [2010] IRLR 994 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability-related discrimination: Court of Appeal confirms that Malcolm test applies in employment cases

    Date:

    4 August 2010

    The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the House of Lords decision in the housing case of London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm [2008] IRLR 700 HL on the appropriate comparator for disability-related discrimination applies to employment cases. 

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  Bainbridge v Atlas Ward Structures Ltd ET/1800212/12 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employee discriminated against because of his wife's disability

    Date:

    30 September 2012

    As this case demonstrates, it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an employee by treating him or her less favourably than others because of someone else's disability. 

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  Basildon & Thurrock NHS Foundation Trust v Weerasinghe EAT/0397/14 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 November 2015

    Jessica Alice-Curtis is a trainee solicitor, Lucy Melville is a paralegal and Nigel Cousin, David Rintoul and Rachael Wake are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Benedetto v Guys' and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust ET/2370562/2011 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employment tribunals: 10 large tribunal payouts in 2014

    Date:

    14 January 2015

    We round up 10 large awards that employment tribunals made in 2014. The compensation awarded in these cases totals nearly £3 million.

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  Bowden v XC Trains Ltd ET/2505497/2012 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: failure to record recruitment process leads to tribunal drawing adverse inferences

    Date:

    29 October 2013

    It is perfectly possible for there to be very little direct evidence of discrimination in a recruitment process, but for an employee to win a tribunal claim because the employer's failure to keep a clear record leads to inconsistencies in its defence, as this disability discrimination case shows.

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  Bowerman v B&Q plc and others [2005] ET/1400375/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 February 2006

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

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  Carver v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police [2008] ET/1301512/08 (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.