N v Packaging Automation: need for evidence of disability
A worker with a stammer was dismissed and claimed disability discrimination. The tribunal held he did not have a disability within the Equality Act. Colleagues said his stammer sounded only…
Website updates November to December 2021
Table of page contents N v Packaging Automation: need for evidence that the stammer is a disabilityProving disability: impact statements and expert reportsStott v Ralli: internal appeal decisions as separate…
Stott v Ralli
The EAT held that in deciding whether there is a breach of s.15 EqA (discrimination arising from disability), the dismissal itself is separate from any later internal appeal decision on…
Website updates September to October 2021
Table of page contents Petition: “No diversity without dysfluency”Reasonable adjustments by service providersLittle Mix concert: case on BSL interpretersR (Rowley) v Minister for the Cabinet OfficeFollows v Nationwide Building SocietyExamples…
Petition: “No diversity without dysfluency”, International Stammering Awareness Day
Stamma, the British Stammering Association, is calling on media organisations around the world to ensure that on television and on the radio we hear people who stammer. Not just when…
Follows v Nationwide Building Society
An employment tribunal held that a worker caring for her disabled mother could claim indirect disability discrimination when asked to give up home-working. This was even though it was the…
Little Mix concert: case on BSL interpreters
The County Court held that organisers of a music concert had breached the reasonable adjustment duty by not arranging BSL interpreters for deaf audience members. 2021, County Court. Summary of…
R (Rowley) v Minister for the Cabinet Office: BSL interpreters
The High Court held that the UK government had failed to make a reasonable adjustment by not providing British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters for two televised Coronavirus data briefings. However…
R (VC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
This appeal concerned reasonable adjustments for those with mental illnesses detained under the Immigration Act. The Court of Appeal held that the Secretary of State had failed to make reasonable…
Website updates July to August 2021
Table of page contents Participants needed for study about experience of witnesses who stammer in courtFace masks/coverings and stammeringApple stammering emojiNew guide for universities on stammeringDisabled Students’ AllowanceAd hoc adjustment…
New guide for universities on stammering
STAMMA and STUC have produced a new guide Supporting students who stammer in higher education (pdf, stamma.org). This guide by STAMMA (stamma.org) and STUC (stuc-uk.org) should be invaluable for universities…
Participants needed for study about experience of witnesses who stammer in court
A forensic linguistics student at Cardiff University is looking for adults who stammer and have been witnesses in court, and also Registered Intermediaries, to participate in a study. People who…
Apple stammering emoji
Many users of iPhones and iPads found that a ‘woozy face’ emoji automatically appeared when typing the word “stammering” into messages. Stamma (the British Stammering Association) said in a July…
Website updates May to June 2021
Table of page contents Stamma Legal – for lawyers who stammer50 Million Voices videoM v Ban-Car Hotel: stammering caseBBC Stammering NetworkExamples of jobs NHS Stammering NetworkElliot v Dorset County CouncilExamples…
M v Ban-Car Hotel
The tribunal found the claimant was disabled within the Equality Act, by reason of her stammer and depression. However it held there was no discrimination, so her claim failed overall….
Elliot v Dorset County Council
The EAT stressed that in assessing whether the effect of an impairment is “substantial” under the Equality Act, the tribunal should start from the statutory wording of whether the effect…
