Mr T Antieul v Surefil Beauty Products Ltd: 2415980/2020
JUDGMENT
This has been a remote hearing which has been consented to by the parties. The form of remote hearing was a video hearing, using the tribunal’s Cloud Video Platform (CVP). A face to face hearing was not held because it was not practicable in the circumstances of the covid-19 pandemic and all issues could be determined in a remote hearing.[1]The Judgment of the Tribunal is that the claimant’s condition of irritable bowel syndrome amounted to a disability within the meaning of s.6 Equality Act 2010 at all material times for the purpose of this claim including, specifically, the period from the start of the covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 through to the termination of the claimant’s employment.[2]For the avoidance of doubt, the respondent has already conceded that the claimant was disabled within the meaning of s.6 in the relevant period due to a historical cancer diagnosis. The claim will now proceed on the basis that the claimant was a disabled person by reference to both conditions.