Miss Kathleen O’Kane v Greater Glasgow Health Board: 4118415/2018

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND)
Case No 4118415/2018Venue GlasgowHearing 7 January 2020
Miss Kathleen O’KaneClaimantGreater Glasgow Health BoardRespondent
Employment Judge I McPhersonDate 9 January 2020

JUDGMENT

(1) Upon hearing the claimant’s representative, in Case Management Preliminary Hearing held in private, the claimant's complaint against these respondents, in terms of Section 47B of the Employment Rights Act 1996, alleging detriment for having made a protected disclosure, having been withdrawn by the claimant, under Rule 51, on 23 December 2019, by email from her solicitor, when producing further and better specification of the claim, that part of her claim against these respondents is dismissed by the Tribunal, on the respondents’ unopposed application, under Rule 52 of the Rules contained in Schedule 1 of the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of E.T. Z4 (WR) Procedure) Regulations 2013, following upon that part-withdrawal by the claimant.(2) Further, in respect of the remaining complaints, alleging unlawful disability discrimination against the claimant by the respondents, contrary to Sections 13, 15, 19, 20 and 27 of the Equalities Act 2010, alleging direct discrimination, discrimination arising from disability, indirect discrimination, failure to make reasonable adjustments, and harassment, those parts of the claimant’s claim against these respondents are not withdrawn by her, under Rule 51, but they are insisted upon by the claimant, and they will proceed to a public Preliminary Hearing on disability status, before an Employment Judge sitting alone, to be held on Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 April 2020, as ordered at this Preliminary Hearing.