Gallop v Newport City Council UKEAT/0586/10/DM
R’s Occupational Health department (OH) had consistently maintained that despite C’s medical condition (stress) he was not disabled. The ET found that R did not have actual or constructive...
Reasonable adjustments
Foster v Cardiff University UKEAT/0422/ 12/ LA (Reasonable adjustments)
C was an academic at R’s University. C suffered from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). C claimed that R had failed to make reasonable adjustments to its teaching requirements in...
Finnigan v Northumbria Police Chief Constable [2013] EWCA Civ 1191
The police carried out lawful searches of C’s property. C claimed that he was discriminated against because the searches were carried out without a British Sign Language Interpreter even...
Cyprien v Bradford Grammar School UKEAT/0306/12/DM (Reasonable Adjustments)
C claimed that R had failed to make two reasonable adjustments. The ET held that R had discriminated against C but that C had not brought his claims in...
Cordell v Foreign office UKEAT/0016/11/SM
C, who was deaf, was employed by R as First Secretary in Warsaw. This was a senior position and she was provided with a lipspeaker. She came to be...
Conway v Community Options Ltd UKEAT/0417/11
C brought proceedings for unfair dismissal and disability discrimination. The ET struck out the claims on the grounds that they had no reasonable prospect of success pursuant to rule...
Chief Constable of West Midlands Police v Gardner UKEAT/0174/11/DA
The ET held that R had failed to make the reasonable adjustment of allowing C to work from home. R appealed the finding that it had failed to make...
Carphone Warehouse Ltd v Martin UKEAT/0371/12/JOJ, UKEAT/0372/JOJ
R (Carphone Warehouse) failed to pay C the correct pay and conducted a flawed disciplinary process. C complained that R’s mistakes were failures to make reasonable adjustments. The ET...
Burke v College of Law & Ors UKEAT/0301/10/SM
The EAT upholds a finding that the College of Law was not required to adjust the time within which it required disabled persons to sit exams.
British Midland Airways v Hamed UKEAT/0292/10/RN
C succeeded in a claim of disability discrimination in the ET. R appealed firstly on the basis that the ET had focused on what adjustments R had considered rather...
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