Mr B F Gourlay v West Dunbartonshire Council

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) 5 Case No: 4106122/2015; 4100137/2016; 4105282/2016; and

4100153/2017 (V) Final Hearing held at Glasgow on 26, 27 and 28 February 2020; 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 and 16 March 2020; 10 4 June 2020 (reading day); 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 16 June 2020 (By CVP); 3 July 2020 (Closing Submissions by CVP); 20 July 2020 (Members’ Meeting by CVP); and 14 June 2021 (Members’ Meeting by Teams) 15 Employment Judge: Ian McPherson Tribunal Members: Mr Peter O’Hagan Mr Jim ...

JUDGMENT OF THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL The judgment of the Employment Tribunal is that: - 5 (1) Unanimously, the Tribunal finds that the respondents failed to make reasonable adjustments for the claimant’s MS disability, and so discriminated against him, on the grounds of his disability, contrary to Sections 20 and 21 of theEquality Act 2010, and the Tribunal accordingly orders that a Remedy Heari...

REASONS Introduction 10 1. This case first called before us, as a full Tribunal, on the morning of Wednesday, 26 February 2020, for what was then listed as a 15-day Final Hearing at the Eagle Building, Glasgow, further to a Notice of Final Hearing previously intimated to both parties’ representatives by the Tribunal under cover of a letter dated 30 December 2019. 15 2. At that stage, thecase wa...

3. With 10 days in person at the Eagle Building, we then continued the Final Hearing, conducted remotely, after a reading day for the Tribunal only, by a 25 further 8 days by CVP, and thereafter private deliberation by the full Tribunal over 2 separate days. In total, this Final Hearing has involved 21 sitting days for the full Tribunal.