Miss J Mitchell v British Broadcasting Corporation

Case Number: 1600994/2024

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant: Miss J Mitchell Respondent: British Broadcasting Corporation Heard at: Cardiff (by video) On: 30 August 2024 Before: Employment Judge R Brace Representation: Claimant: In person Respondent: Miss A Greenley (Counsel)

JUDGMENT The Claimant’s claims of indirect disability discrimination, failure to comply with the duty to make reasonable adjustments and indirect age discrimination are brought in time. The application for strike out of the claims, on the basis that they have no reasonable prospects of success, is refused. Written Reasons

1. The Claimant had issued her ET1 claim form on 11 April 2024, after entering early conciliation on 6 February 2024 that had ended on 19 March 2024. In her ET1 claim form she brought claims of indirect age discrimination, indirect disability discrimination and failure to comply with the duty to make reasonable adjustments.

2. Issues arising from such complaints had been discussed at the case management preliminary hearing on 3 July 2024 before Judge Hunt and set out in the subsequent case management order. This public preliminary hearing had Case Number: been listed by Judge Hunt at that preliminary hearing to consider a number of issues as follows: a. Were the Claimant’s claims under the Equality Act 2010 (“EqA ...