Herry v Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council & anor [2016] UKEAT/0100/16/LA

Disability discrimination: When ignorance may not be bliss

Charles Wynn-Evans analyses recent case law on the thorny issue of when an employer is considered to have knowledge of an employee’s disability ‘While the employer’s knowledge is only one aspect of a disability discrimination claim, it is clear from these decisions that an employer cannot simply neglect consideration of whether an employee is disabled …

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Stress At Work: Walking the tightrope

Liam Ryan and Tess Barrett discuss ways of determining unhappy employees from genuinely injured claimants ‘In cases where stress-related symptoms surface in a clear and unambiguous manner, such as an employee making a complaint or bursting into tears, a certain level of initiative is to be expected from an employer.’Cases where employers face claims predicated …

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Disability Discrimination: A round-up of recent cases

Mark Stevens reviews four EAT decisions on the requirements around medical evidence in disability cases and on what amounts to a disability ‘An employer will not escape liability in a s15 EqA claim simply because the evidence available at the time of its decision did not establish a link between the behaviour in question and …

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