Guidance on disability definition

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  Goodwin v The Patent Office [1999] IRLR 4 EAT (2 other reports)

  • Disability discrimination: Schizophrenia sufferer was disabled person under DDA

    Date:

    1 February 1999

    An employee who suffered from schizophrenia, and as a result experienced difficulties in concentrating and communicating, was a disabled person within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act, holds the EAT in Goodwin v The Patent Office.

  • Guidance on meaning of disability

    Date:

    1 January 1999

    In Goodwin v The Patent Office (21 October 1998) EOR83E, the EAT has issued detailed guidance on analysing whether an applicant falls within the Disability Discrimination Act's definition of disability.