Claimant v Metropolitan Police Service
Outcome
Individual claims
This is a remedy hearing following a liability judgment. The tribunal awarded compensation for past and future financial losses, injury to feelings, and made a recommendation to put the claimant back on a shift pattern to include two-person scene work, indicating the discrimination claim succeeded at the liability stage.
Facts
This is a remedy hearing in a disability discrimination case brought by a police officer against the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. The claimant had previously succeeded on liability. The case appears to involve the claimant being removed from two-person scene work, causing financial loss. The parties agreed figures for past financial losses on a gross basis.
Decision
The tribunal awarded the claimant total compensation of £39,565.86 including past financial losses (£22,630.83), future financial losses (£778.56), injury to feelings (£12,000), and interest totalling £4,156.47. The tribunal also made a recommendation that the respondent restore the claimant to a shift pattern including two-person scene work within four weeks.
Practical note
Employers who discriminate by removing disabled employees from certain types of work face not only compensatory awards but also recommendations to reinstate the employee to their previous working arrangements.
Award breakdown
Vento band: lower
Legal authorities cited
Statutes
Case details
- Case number
- 2301078/2023
- Decision date
- 10 March 2025
- Hearing type
- remedy
- Hearing days
- 1
- Classification
- contested
Respondent
- Sector
- emergency services
- Represented
- Yes
- Rep type
- barrister
Claimant representation
- Represented
- Yes
- Rep type
- barrister