All items: Victimisation

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  Angel v New Possibilities NHS Trust [2002] ICR 341 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Can you still discriminate against an ex-employee?

    Date:

    26 February 2002

    The EAT has hinted that the House of Lords should make a clear ruling regarding discrimination of ex-staff under the DDA. By Nicholas Moore, head of employment at Osborne Clarke.

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  Bond v Hackney Citizens Advice Bureau [2002] ICR 341 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Can you still discriminate against an ex-employee?

    Date:

    26 February 2002

    The EAT has hinted that the House of Lords should make a clear ruling regarding discrimination of ex-staff under the DDA. By Nicholas Moore, head of employment at Osborne Clarke.

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  Bruce v Addleshaw Booth & Co [2004] All ER (D) 218 (May) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Bruce v Addleshaw Booth & Co

    Date:

    31 May 2004

    In Bruce v Addleshaw Booth & Co [2004] All ER (D) 218 (May) EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed that complaints of victimisation are not free standing and can be brought only if the claimant can show that he or she has been subjected to discrimination of a type rendered unlawful by the relevant discrimination legislation, for example in relation to recruitment or being subjected to a detriment in employment.

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  Carter v Live Nation Venues UK Ltd ET/1401178/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • No associative disability discrimination against carer

    Date:

    18 January 2010

    The claimant alleged that she had been harassed and victimised when the theatre in which she worked changed its shift practices so that she could no longer simply turn up to work each time a show was on and be given work, which had an impact on her ability to care for her disabled husband.

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  Jones v 3M Healthcare [2002] ICR 1124 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case roundup: Redundancy and disability discrimination

    Date:

    2 April 2002

    This week's case roundup, covering redundancy and disability discrimination.

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  Jones v 3M Healthcare Ltd EAT/0714/00 (4 reports relating to this case)

  • Post-termination events

    Date:

    1 June 2002

    In joined appeals in Jones v 3M Healthcare Ltd and other cases, the EAT holds that there is no jurisdiction for employment tribunals to hear disability discrimination cases relating to events after the termination of employment.

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 June 2002

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

  • Can you still discriminate against an ex-employee?

    Date:

    26 February 2002

    The EAT has hinted that the House of Lords should make a clear ruling regarding discrimination of ex-staff under the DDA. By Nicholas Moore, head of employment at Osborne Clarke.

  • EAT ruling throws victimisation laws into state of confusion

    Date:

    1 February 2002

    The law on post-termination victimisation has been thrown into further confusion following a ruling by the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

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  Martin v Devonshires Solicitors EAT/0086/10 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Victimisation: There may be a valid distinction between a protected act and "genuinely separable" features of consequences of that act

    Date:

    1 May 2011

    In Martin v Devonshires Solicitors EAT/0086/10, the EAT held that, where an employer dismisses an employee in response to his or her protected act, the employer may not have unlawfully victimised the employee where the reason for the dismissal was some feature of the protected act that can be treated as separable.

  • Mentally ill employee dismissed following multiple grievances was not victimised

    Date:

    20 December 2010

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed that, where an employer dismisses an employee in response to his or her protected act, the employer may not have unlawfully victimised the employee where the reason for dismissal is some feature of the protected act that can be treated as separable. 

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  Peninsula Business Service Ltd v Baker [2017] IRLR 394 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: No harassment claim possible where disability not established

    Date:

    1 October 2017

    In Peninsula Business Service Ltd v Baker [2017] IRLR 394 EAT, the EAT held that, for a claim of harassment to succeed in a case involving the protected characteristic of disability, it is not enough for the alleged harassment to be "related to" disability in a general sense. The claimant must actually have a disability to bring the claim.

  • Assertion of disability by employee not sufficient for a discrimination claim

    Date:

    9 March 2017

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employee could not claim for harassment on the ground of disability where he had not proved, but merely asserted, that he has a disability.

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  Rathbone v Dudley College of Technology [1999] ET/1301325/98 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employee with MS victimised

    Date:

    1 June 1999

    A part-time lecturer with multiple sclerosis was unlawfully victimised by her employer for bringing proceedings alleging disability discrimination, holds a Birmingham employment tribunal (Chair: J van Gelder) in Rathbone v Dudley College of Technology.

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  Williams v Bannatyne Fitness Ltd ET/1311340/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Bannatyne fitness club discriminated against Thalidomide victim

    Date:

    8 March 2011

    Employers that fail to use common sense when dealing with disabled employees will fall foul of discrimination law, as a well-known fitness chain found to its cost in this case.