Mr D Betteridge v LTE Group — 2023

At a preliminary hearing, the tribunal considered whether the claim should be struck out because it had no reasonable prospect of success. The claimant had referred in earlier material to seeking acknowledgement of discrimination and bias in recruitment, and in ACAS early conciliation had identified disability discrimination, referring to dyslexia.

The tribunal gave the claimant an opportunity to explain what claims he was bringing and how they fell within the tribunal’s jurisdiction. It identified that he was complaining about not being interviewed and about the respondent not replying to his emails asking why, but found that he did not articulate how either matter amounted to discrimination because of or related to dyslexia. Even taking the complaint at its highest and assuming disability status, the tribunal found there was no articulated disability discrimination claim, or any other tribunal claim, with which it could engage.

The tribunal noted that it had already highlighted these difficulties at an earlier preliminary hearing and that the claimant’s position had not materially changed. It held that it could not guess at or invent claims for him, and struck out the claim as having no reasonable prospect of success.