Mr M Usman v Bidvest-Noonan (UK) Ltd: 3315921/2021
JUDGMENT
Mr. Z Khan Mr. I Morrison On hearing for the Claimant in person and Ms Ghazaleh Rezaie (counsel) for the Respondent:[1]The Claimant’s claims for direct race discrimination are not well founded and are dismissed.[2]The Claimant’s claims for harassment related to race are not well founded and are dismissed.REASONS
[1]By claim for presented on 4 September 2021 in the Watford Employment Tribunal, the Claimant brought claims of race related harassment and direct discrimination because of race.[2]The Respondent defended the claims by its response presented on 15 October 2021.[3]Further particulars of the Claimant’s case were provided by the Claimant following the Tribunal’s order of 23 February 2022. These appear in the bundle at pages 26 – 31. The Respondent says it received these on 13 April 2022.[4]On 12 May 2022, in response to the further information, The Respondent submitted an amended Grounds of Resistance at pages 45 – 47 in the bundle.[5]On 15 June 2022, there was a case management preliminary hearing before Judge Hanning. At this hearing the claims were discussed, clarified and the list of issues for the Tribunal to determine was fixed.[6]It had also been agreed between the parties and ordered by the Tribunal that the case would be transferred from Watford to Birmingham after the case management hearing and this was so ordered.[7]Nothing further of note happened in the preparation of this case until the final hearing.THE ISSUES
[8]The issues for the Tribunal to determine were clarified at a case management hearing before Employment Judge Hanning sitting in Watford employment Tribunal.[9]The only amendment to the issues at the final hearing was that the issues refer to a Mr. K Eldred as having done certain things. However, it was common ground that this was supposed to refer to Mr. Neil Eldred. Case Number: 3315921/2021