F v Responsible Body of School W: [2020] UKUT 112 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Ward on 6 April 2020.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 23 April 2020

• Categories: Disability discrimination in schools, Tribunal procedure and practice
• Sub-categories: Tribunal procedure and practice - other, Tribunal procedure and practice - tribunal practice
• Judges: Ward, C
• Decision date: 6 April 2020

Read the full decision in HS/2703/2019 (V)

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.

Published 23 April 2020