Equality bodies welcome ruling on workplace compensation

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  Essa v Laing Ltd [2004] IRLR 313 CA (2 other reports)

  • Causation is sufficient for award of damages

    Date:

    1 April 2004

    In Essa v Laing Ltd (21 January 2004) the Court of Appeal holds, in a case involving racial abuse, that an applicant need establish only a causal link between the discriminatory act and the injury suffered, with no need to show that the injury was reasonably foreseeable.

  • Race discrimination: Recovering compensation for psychiatric damage

    Date:

    19 March 2004

    In Laing Ltd v Essa, the Court of Appeal holds that an employee who suffered unlawful race discrimination which caused him psychiatric injury was entitled to recover compensation for that injury provided he could establish that the discrimination caused the damage.