All items: Sex discrimination

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  Bavin v NHS Trust Pensions Agency and another [1999] OPLR 285 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • In court 1999

    Date:

    1 January 2000

    Our 10th annual round-up of court and tribunal cases concerning pensions and retirement issues encompasses 38 judgments. Last year saw some important decisions, but fewer cases overall than in recent years.

  • Sex discrimination: Pension scheme did not unlawfully discriminate against transsexual

    Date:

    15 October 1999

    In Bavin v (1) NHS Trust Pensions Agency (2) Secretary of State for Health, the EAT holds that a pension scheme under which only the surviving spouse of a member is entitled to derived benefits did not unlawfully discriminate on grounds of sex against a transsexual, who was born in a female body but has undergone gender reassignment, in a long-term relationship with a female member of the scheme.

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  Beardmore v (1) South West Trains (2) W E Hamilton [2001] ET/2305257/00 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Note to staff was victimisation

    Date:

    1 September 2001

    The posting of a notice by the respondent, ostensibly to thank staff for support during the investigation of a grievance, amounted to unlawful victimisation of the applicant who had brought (and won) the grievance proceedings, holds a London South tribunal (Chair: D N Milton) in Beardmore v (1) South West Trains (2) W E Hamilton.

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  Beck v Arts Council of Northern Ireland [1993] IT/1771/91 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Woman passed over for promotion

    Date:

    1 December 1993

    A woman who was passed over for promotion in preference to a male colleague, even though she had the most relevant experience as defined in the job specification for the post, was unlawfully discriminated against, rules a Belfast industrial tribunal (Chair: M Cooper) in Beck v Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

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  Bell v Tocher Neal & Co [1996] IT/72964/95 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Victimised for refusing support in sex bias claim

    Date:

    1 June 1997

    A secretary in a firm of solicitors who was reduced almost to the state of "a gibbering idiot" by a two and a half hour meeting with the firm's senior partner after she refused to support him in a discrimination claim brought by a dismissed pregnant employee was unlawfully victimised, rules a Newcastle-upon-Tyne industrial tribunal (Chair: J D Myers) in Bell v Tocher Neal & Co.

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  Belsham v Feversham Arms Ltd [2008] ET/1805606/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest: Harassment

    Date:

    1 May 2008

    Sue Johnstone, editor of Equal Opportunities Review, provides a round-up of some of the remedies that employment tribunals have awarded in harassment cases.

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  Bennett (t/a Foxbar Hotel) v Reid [2001] All ER (D) 99 (Oct) EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • EAT refuses to interfere with tribunals injury award

    Date:

    1 February 2002

    A £10,000 award for sexual harassment has been upheld on appeal even though the appeals tribunal described the level of compensation as 'generous'.

  • Case roundup: Compensation for sex discrimination and references

    Date:

    29 January 2002

    This week's case roundup, covering a tribunal award for injury to feelings in a claim for sex discrimination and whether confidential references should be disclosed in a tribunal.

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  Bennett v Southwark London Borough Council [2002] IRLR 407 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Practice and procedure: Representative should have been given opportunity to withdraw offensive remarks

    Date:

    22 July 2002

    An employment tribunal should not have discharged itself from further participation in a race discrimination case after the complainant's black lay representative remarked, with no justification, that if he were a white barrister his application for an adjournment would not have been rejected, the Court of Appeal holds in Bennett v London Borough of Southwark.

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 April 2002

    Hilary Slater, consultant with Cobbetts solicitors, provides a round-up of decisions on discrimination.

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  Bennett-Shaw v The Guide Association [2000] ET/2301974/99 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Full-timer needed to head department

    Date:

    1 December 2000

    A voluntary association was justified in refusing to allow its public relations manager to return to work from maternity leave part-time, a London South employment tribunal (Chair: R W Rideout) holds in Bennett-Shaw v The Guide Association.

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  Bentley v Bodyshop International plc [2001] ET/3100548/00 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Positive discrimination required by maternity leave provisions

    Date:

    1 September 2001

    In Bentley v Bodyshop International plc a Southampton employment tribunal (Chair: C E H Twiss) states that s.81 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 involves "a measure of positive discrimination against equally or more competent male employees" and that "on occasions women exercising their rights under s.81 might, thereby, gain some preference over equally or better qualified men".

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  Benton v Care Needs Ltd ET/2406088/2010 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employer harassed and victimised employee after she underwent IVF treatment

    Date:

    23 June 2011

    This case is a prime example of the problems that can occur in a workplace when a member of staff is undergoing IVF treatment in a bid to get pregnant.