Claimant v Elekta Ltd

The tribunal found it had no territorial jurisdiction to hear the claim. The claimant was an Egyptian national, living and working exclusively in Egypt, employed by Elekta Egypt LLC (not the UK respondent), with his contract governed by Egyptian law. He had no sufficiently strong connection with Great Britain or British employment law to displace the presumption that claims brought by workers wholly abroad cannot proceed in the UK Employment Tribunal.

The tribunal found it had no territorial jurisdiction to hear the claim for the same reasons as the race discrimination claim: the claimant lived and worked wholly in Egypt, was employed under Egyptian law, and had no sufficiently strong connection with Great Britain or British employment law.

The tribunal found it had no territorial jurisdiction to hear the victimisation claim. Additionally, the tribunal found the claimant had no legal basis under the Equality Act 2010 to bring claims against the first respondent (who did not employ him) or against the two individual respondents (former HR employees of the first respondent).

The tribunal found it had no territorial jurisdiction to hear the harassment claim, applying the same reasoning as to all other claims: lack of connection with Great Britain and British employment law.