Timbo v Greenwich Council For Racial Equality (Sex Discrimination) [2012] UKEAT
0160_12_0210
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Published on: 05/10/2012
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The appellant employee appealed against the decision of an Employment Tribunal to dismiss her race and sex discrimination claims against the respondent employer part way through the hearing. 41The employer applied to strike out the appellant‟s claims arguing that the hearing should be quashed as the complaints exemplified dual discrimination i.e. claims of discrimination on two levels, both race and sex. Such claims are not provided for prior to the Equality Act 2010 and so the claim was null. The employer also argued that the employee had no substantive evidence on which to build her claim. The tribunal granted the employer‟s application, describing it as a submission of no case to answer and found the employee‟s credibility to be
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This article is correct at 05/10/2012
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