LIST OF CASES / Jones v The Post Office CA 2001

[2001] EWCA Civ 558, reported at [2001] ICR 805 (Court of Appeal on 11th April 2001)

NOTES

Jones v The Post Office, Court of Appeal [2001] EWCA Civ 558, [2001] ICR 805 Court of Appeal on 11th April 2001 (also reported at [2001] IRLR 384)

The full text judgment in this case is available free of charge on the BAILII website.
(professional versions only)

Representation:-

Melanie Tether instructed by Messrs Pattinson & Brewer appeared for Mr Jones, the Appellant

David Griffith-Jones and Andrew Burns instructed by Post Office Legal Services Department appeared for the Respondent employer

Authority for the proposition that:-

in deciding whether disability discrimination is justifed, on a proper construction of DDA 1995 s.5(3) an employment tribunal is confined to considering whether the employer's reason for treating a disabled employee less favourably than others can properly be described as both material to the circumstances of the particular case and substantial. Tribunals do not have the more general power to make their own appraisal of the medical evidence or make their own risk assessment

For relevant general notes see Disability Discrimination/Justification and/or Disability Discrimination/meaning of disability .

FINISH>
prepared April2001