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Justice obtained? How disabled claimants fare at Employment Tribunals
Author(s) -
William Laura,
Pauksztat Birgit,
Corby Susan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/irj.12260
Subject(s) - plaintiff , stigma (botany) , economic justice , hierarchy , inequality , law , political science , psychology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , psychiatry
This article explores disability discrimination cases at British Employment Tribunals. Analysing over 750 judgments, it examines the characteristics of claimants and the factors associated with the failure of cases: restrictive judicial decisions, complex legal tests, inequality of arms between claimant and employer and the stigma attached to claimants with mental impairments, providing some evidence for a hierarchy of impairments.