Heatherwood & Wrexham Park Hospitals Trust v Beer - Disability: "long term effect" [2006] EAT
For a disability to come within the DDA 1995 it must have long term effect (ie it must have lasted, or be likely to last, at least 12 months or until the patient's death if sooner).
The EAT accepted in this case that in considering whether an impairment had lasted for at least 12 months it is permissible for a tribunal to take into account the whole of the period until the commencement of the Employment Tribunal proceedings.
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