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Mid-Devon District Council v Stevenson - ET chairman's decision not to allow further expert evidence ruled "perverse" [2007] EAT

Ms Stevenson brought a disability discrimination claim against her employers, the MDCC. The schedule of loss indicated a claim of approximately £91,000, plus pension loss. At a preliminary hearing in January 2007 an employment tribunal chairman (at the Exeter tribunal) refused to allow the employer to put forward further medical evidence from their own expert as to whether Ms Stevenson was suffering from a disability within the meaning of DDA 1995.

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