Mr G Durkin v Pets Choice Ltd: 2409547/2021
JUDGMENT
[1]The claimant’s claim for perceived direct disability discrimination is struck out on the ground that it has no reasonable prospect of success.[2]Full oral reasons were provided today and a summary of the reasoning is provided here. The claimant’s case was that the respondent perceived that he would become mentally unwell and that would amount to a disability in the future. He did not argue that the respondent perceived him to have a condition that might progress to a disability, nor did he argue that the respondent perceived him to have any condition at all as at the date of its decision to dismiss him. His case was in this way distinguished from the authority The Chief Constable of Norfolk v Lisa Coffey [2019]EWCA Civ 1061 to which I was referred by the respondent.