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When a postcard is seen as a case of racial bias

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Chief Constable of the Kent Constabulary v Kufeji EAT/1135/00 (2 other reports)
- Topless postcard discriminatory
  
  Date:
  
  1 September 2001
  
  In Chief Constable of the Kent Constabulary v Kufeji the EAT has upheld a finding that a postcard sent by a work colleague to a black police officer of Nigerian origin, which depicted a group of bare-breasted black women, amounted to unlawful racial harassment.
- Race discrimination: Sending postcard to workplace amounted to racial harassment
  
  Date:
  
  15 July 2001
  
  In Chief Constable of the Kent Constabulary v Kufeji, the EAT upholds an employment tribunal's conclusion that a white South African police officer racially harassed a black colleague of Nigerian origin by sending him and other, white, colleagues a postcard while on holiday in South Africa.

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Published date: 2 October 2001
Publisher: RBI
Source:: Personnel Today

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