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ANGEL SOLICITORS (A Firm) (Applicant) v JENKINS O'DOWD & BARTH (A Firm)
(Respondent) & (1) BARCLAYS BANK PLC (2) CLOSE BROTHERS LTD (3)
ELLENWELL PROPERTIES LTD (Third Partie [2009] EWHC 46 (Ch) : (2009) 1
WLR 1220 : (2009) PNLR 19 : (2009) 14 EG 88 : (2009) 4 EG 116 (CS) : (2009)
NPC 9 : Times, March 10, 2009

Employment Tribunal did not err in law when it found that it did not have jurisdiction
to hear a complaint presented 88 seconds outside the prescribed three-month
period: held the EAT in Beasley v National Grid Electricity Transmission
UKEAT/0626/06/DM

Pursuant to the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, appropriate measures must be
taken to enable workers to advance in her and his employment. Since the effect of
the disability of a worker was that he needed extra time to do his assessment for
promotion, without which his promotion prospects may be adversely affected, then
it must be said to hinder participation in professional life: held the EAT in Paterson v
The Commissioner of the Police Metropolis UKEAT/0635/06/LA

Statutory reverse burden of proof pursuant to s54A of the Race Relations Act 1976
("RRA 1976") does not apply to discrimination by way of victimisation contrary to s2
of RRA 1976: held the EAT in Oyarce v Cheshire County Council UKEAT/0557/06/DA

Course leading to student's eligibility to final year of a degree at university deemed
not to be a course below degree level. Consequently, intention to leave UK at the
end of studies inapplicable: R.S. Thakuri v SSHD (IA/02974/2005)

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