Discrimination compensation can include PI damages

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  Sheriff v Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd [1999] IRLR 481 CA (2 other reports)

  • Race discrimination: Damages for personal injury may be awarded under Race Relations Act

    Date:

    15 September 1999

    Employment tribunals have jurisdiction to award compensation for the statutory tort of unlawful racial discrimination under the Race Relations Act, including damages for physical or psychiatric injury caused by the tort, holds the Court of Appeal in Sheriff v Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd.

  • Claim can include personal injury damages

    Date:

    1 September 1999

    In Sheriff v Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd the Court of Appeal has ruled that an employment tribunal has jurisdiction to award compensation by way of damages for personal injury caused by the statutory tort of unlawful discrimination.