The Employment Appeal Tribunal in the case of Parnaby v Leicester City Council has considered when is the right time to assess whether someone has a disability.

For our Halloween employment law update, we thought we should cover the Employment Appeal Tribunal’s decision in the case of Brooks v Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, in which it considered whether a Claimant should have to pay £170,000 in costs for unreasonably pursuing a claim with no prospects of success.

The Employment Tribunal in the case of Mackereth v The Department for Work and Pensions and another has considered whether a doctor had been discriminated against after he was dismissed for refusing to refer to transgender patients by their preferred pronouns.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal in the case of Harrison v Aryman Ltd has considered the circumstances in which “protected conversations” can be referred to in an Employment Tribunal.