F v Responsible Body of School W: [2020] UKUT 112 (AAC)
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Ward on 6 April 2020.
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Judicial Summary
Refusing to register part of a disability discrimination claim, on the ground eventually stated to be that that it had been insufficiently pleaded, is capable of being done under the broad powers of rule 5 in appropriate cases, but only if done on a sufficiently defined basis and accompanied by procedural safeguards that were lacking here. However, (applying by analogy dicta of Lord Steyn in Anyanhwu v South Bank Students Union [2001] UKHL 14) caution should be exercised in bringing disability discrimination claims to an unduly early end.