Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2003] All ER (D) 116 (Mar)
Court: Employment Appeal Tribunal
Judge:

Judge Peter Clark, Dr D Grieves and Mr H Singh

Representation The employee appeared in person.
  Anthony Ross (instructed by Alison Lowton) for the employer.
Judgment Dates: 5 February 2003

Catchwords

Discrimination - Disability discrimination - Employment - Employment tribunal finding employee not a disabled person - Conflicting medical evidence - Correctness of decision - s 1.

The Case

In the instant case, an employment tribunal had been faced with a straight conflict of medical evidence between the two doctors, and had been entitled to prefer the opinion of the second doctor and to reach a conclusion that the employee was not a disabled person for the purposes of s1 of the .

Practice Areas

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