R (Efthimiou) v The City of London
Swimming in an open air pond on Hampstead Heath helped the claimant’s disability. A new system of prices to swim in the pond was introduced. Her claims for reasonable adjustments…
Website updates November to December 2022
Connection of employment with Great Britain Major update and review of Connection of employment with Great Britain, including later cases, and updated for Brexit. Status of University of Law Added…
Website updates September to October 2022
Retained EU law Bill: changes affecting EqA A Bill published in September 2022 would alter the position of EU law and EU Court decisions in Britain. It may well reduce…
Website updates July to August 2022
Automated telephone services: RCSLT statement The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) has issued a Position statement on automated telephone services, including voice recognition which cannot recognise stammering….
Toplak and Mrak v Slovenia
The two applicants were wheelchair users. They claimed to the Strasbourg court that their local voting facilities were not sufficiently accessible, so that there was discrimination contrary to the European…
Lárusson v Iceland
The ECtHR in Strasbourg rejected a claim by a wheelchair user that failure to make two cultural buildings in his municipality accessible was a breach of Article 14 of the…
G v The Insolvency Service
The claimant had a stammer. In September 2020 he was turned down for a promotion with his existing employer, who knew of his stammer. The interview was by video due…
R (SC) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Supreme Court held that legislation limiting tax credit to the first two children in a household is not unlawful discrimination contrary to Article 14 of the European Convention of…
D v Nottingham Squash Rackets Club
The claimant had a stammer and other disabilities. He went off work with stress due to how he was treated (not related to his disabilities). While he was still off…
T v Ministry of Defence: disability discrimination claim by former member of armed forces
An employment tribunal has held that under the Human Rights Act, the Equality Act must be re-interpreted to permit a claim where disability discrimination occurs after discharge from the armed…
Website updates May to June 2022
Abrahart case: oral assessments led to suicide Abrahart v University of Bristol: oral assessments led to suicide, County Court decision, May 2022. This tragic case involved a physics student with…
Department of Work and Pensions v Boyers
When an employer is seeking to justify a dismissal under s.15 EqA (discrimination arising from disability), does it matter that the procedure leading up to the dismissal is unsatisfactory? The…
Abrahart v University of Bristol: oral assessments led to suicide
This tragic case involved a physics student with depression and social anxiety disorder. The university continued to seek to use oral interviews to assess her, even though she failed to…
Website updates March to April 2022
Whether lack of knowledge relevant to s.15 justification defence City of York Council v Grosset>Justification: tribunal entitled to consider medical evidence not available to the employer added to cover a…
W v TJ Morris (t/a Home Bargains)
The claimant had spinal issues and a stammer. Among other things she alleged that the store manager would not allow her to put her case to him, by speaking over…
Primaz v Carl Room Restaurants t/a McDonald’s Restaurants
The claimant had epilepsy and vitiligo. From online research she took various steps which she was convinced would help her conditions but were not supported by professional advice, such as…
