All items: Discrimination by others than employers

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  Ado-Jingwa v Connex South Eastern Ltd [2001] ET/1101612/99 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employer not liable for racist abuse by customers

    Date:

    1 June 2001

    In Ado-Jingwa v Connex South Eastern Ltd, an Ashford employment tribunal (Chair: V Cooney) has found that an employer was not legally liable for failing to protect a railway conductor from racial abuse from passengers.

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  Ahsan v Sawyer [1998] ET/1300856/98 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Labour Party accused of race discrimination

    Date:

    1 March 1999

    In Ahsan v Sawyer a Birmingham employment tribunal (Chair: S Williams) holds that it has jurisdiction to hear a complaint that an Asian councillor was racially discriminated against when he was not re-selected by the Labour Party.

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  Alexander v The Home Office 1 June 1987 County Court (1 report relating to this case)

  • Allocation of prison job racially discriminatory

    Date:

    1 September 1987

    In Alexander v The Home Office (1.6.87) EOR15B, a County Court holds that the Race Relations Act applies to the work of prisoners in prisons and that the plaintiff had been unlawfully discriminated against with respect to his application for a kitchen job.

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  Aziz v Trinity Street Taxis Ltd and others [1986] IRLR 435 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Victimisation protection narrowly construed

    Date:

    1 November 1986

    In Aziz v Trinity Street Taxis Ltd and others (20.5.86) EOR10A, the EAT holds that in order to determine whether an employee has been victimised by reason of an activity protected by the statute, that the activity took place in a protected context must be ignored; the correct question is whether another person who acted in a similar way outside the context of a protected activity would be treated similarly.

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  Aziz v Trinity Street Taxis Ltd and others [1988] IRLR 204 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Discrimination: Victimisation provisions interpreted narrowly

    Date:

    5 May 1988

    Past case law has made it difficult for complainants to establish victimisation because tribunals have compared the treatment of a person who has done an act protected by s.2 to that of a person who has done a similar but unprotected act. But in Aziz v Trinity Street Taxis Ltd and others the Court of Appeal holds that the correct comparison is between those who have done a protected act and those who have not.

  • Victimisation turns on motive of alleged discriminator

    Date:

    1 May 1988

    In Aziz v Trinity Street Taxis Ltd and others (26.2.88) EOR19B, the Court of Appeal rules that in order to show unlawful victimisation under the Race Relations Act 1976 (RRA), the complainant must establish a causal link showing that the fact that the act protected under s.2 was done under or by reference to the RRA consciously influenced the alleged discriminator in treating him less favourably.

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  Bennett v Essex County Council EAT/1447/98 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Failure to prevent or minimise racial harassment was discriminatory

    Date:

    1 March 2000

    In Bennett v Essex County Council and others, the EAT holds that the relevant authorities failed to take all reasonable steps to prevent a black schoolteacher being subjected to racial harassment by pupils.

  • School liable for racial abuse

    Date:

    1 December 1999

    In Bennett v Essex County Council and others the EAT has found a school liable under the Race Relations Act 1976 for racial abuse of a black teacher by its pupils.

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  Bhimji v Wigan and Leigh College [2000] ET/2400202/00 (1 report relating to this case)

  • College liable for student abuse

    Date:

    1 June 2001

    In Bhimji v Wigan and Leigh College a Manchester employment tribunal (Chair: C J Chapman) rules that a College was liable for students' racist and sexist abuse of a female Asian lecturer.

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  Bowry v (1) Samson (2) Leicestershire Health Authority [1992] IT/22873/91 (1 report relating to this case)

  • No liability for racist remarks

    Date:

    1 June 1993

    A health authority employee who was allegedly subjected to racist remarks by an employee of a firm contracted to provide the authority with services could not bring a race discrimination claim against the contractor's employee, as he was neither employed by the authority nor acting as the authority's agent, rules a Leicester industrial tribunal (Chair: A C Tickle) in Bowry v (1) Samson (2) Leicestershire Health Authority.

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  British Medical Association v Chaudhary [2007] IRLR 800 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • British Medical Association v Chaudhary

    Date:

    7 August 2007

    In British Medical Association v Chaudhary [2007] EWCA Civ 788 CA, the Court of Appeal has overturned a decision awarding £814,877 to a surgeon who claimed that the British Medical Association (BMA) had discriminated against him by failing to support his race discrimination claims against regulatory medical bodies.

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  Burton and Rhule v De Vere Hotels [1996] IRLR 596 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Employer liable for third-party harassment

    Date:

    15 November 1996

    In Burton and Rhule v De Vere Hotels, the EAT holds that an employer "subjected" its employees to unlawful race discrimination when it allowed a speaker and guests at its hotel to abuse and harass them racially, in circumstances in which it had sufficient control over the discriminatory event so as to have been able to prevent or reduce the extent of it by applying good employment practice.

  • Direct liability for harassment

    Date:

    1 November 1996

    In Burton v De Vere Hotels (18 September 1996), the EAT rules that an employer subjects an employee to the detriment of racial harassment if it causes or permits the racial harassment to occur in circumstances in which it can control whether it happens or not.