£21,000 for injury to feelings
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Salmon v David and others [1998] ET/1100751/97 (1 other report)
A female prison officer who was subjected to sexual harassment whilst working in a predominantly male environment, culminating in offensive and sexually degrading remarks being made against her in the "dock book" by a male colleague, is awarded compensation of £77,345, including £21,000 for injury to feelings and aggravated damages, by an Ashford employment tribunal (Chair: V J Cooney) in Salmon v (1) David and (2) HM Prison Service. The dock book incident and its repercussions, including an attempted cover up and the failure to take action against the person responsible, took the case from "the low to high in the scale of injury to feelings".