Employment Tribunals

Note: Employment tribunals were formerly known as Industrial Tribunals.

A v West Yorkshire Police | Other Police Cases | Other employment cases

A v West Yorkshire Police

• A-v-West Yorkshire Police — full text of the 1999 employment tribunal ruling which, after a fuller examination of the law, upheld the applicant’s complaint of sex discrimination
• A-v-West Yorkshire Police — full text of the 1999 employment tribunal’s second decision, in which it ruled that part of the 1999 amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act contravene the Equal Treatment Directive.
• West Yorkshire Police-v-A — full text of the 1999 Employment Appeal Tribunal’s important precedent-setting decision upholding the validity of an a Restricted Reporting Order extending beyond promulgation.
• West Yorkshire Police-v-A (EAT) — full text of the 2001 Employment Appeal tribunal’s substantive ruling
• A-v-West Yorkshire Police (Court of Appeal) — 2002 Court of Appeal ruling in favour of A

Other police cases

• Ashton-v-West Mercia Police — full text of the 1999 employment tribunal ruling which rejected a claim of discrimination by a trans police officer dismissed from a civilian post to which she had been redeployed.
• Ashton v West Mercia Police: full text of the decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal upholding the dismissal of Ms Ashton’s claim of sex discrimintion and disability discrimintion (July 2000)
• M-v-West Midlands Police — full text of the 1996 industrial tribunal ruling which allowed a police force to refuse to recruit trans officers

Other employment cases

• Mills and Crown Prosecution Service v. Marshall — full text of the 1998 Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling which upheld an industrial tribunals’s decision to hear a claim of sex discrimination after the expiry of the three-month limit, because until the ECJ’s ruling in the P-V-S case Ms Marshall had been unaware that she had a right to bring a claim.
• Kristina Sheffield v. Air Foyle Charter Airlines — full text of the 1998 industrial tribunal ruling in which the applicant was found to have been unlawfully discriminated against because she was trans when her application for employment was rejected.
• Chessington World of Adventure-v-X — full text of the 1997 employment appeal tribunal ruling which confirmed that the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act does prevent discrimination against trans people (38Kb)
• DA-v-Suffolk County Council — full text of the 1999 employment tribunal decision which found unlawful discrimination against a trans woman who had been providing personal care to people with learning disabilities.
• Cash v The Ministry Of Defence (Royal Navy): full text of the decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal which upheld the dismissal of her claim of unfair dismisal and medical negligence (October 2000)
• X v NHS Trust Pensions Agency: trans man not entitled to partner’s pension (Employment Appeal Tribunal, 1999)
• White v. British Sugar: full text of the 1977 industrial tribunal ruling which concluded that at that time, the Sex Discrimintion Act did not outlaw discrimination on grounds of gender reassignment.