Mr M Epstein For v Government of the State of Qatar — 2019

Judgment under rule 21 had been entered in the Claimant's favour on her European law claims for sex discrimination, religion or belief discrimination and failure to pay holiday pay. The Tribunal recorded that the domestic law claims were dismissed on withdrawal. At remedy, the Tribunal accepted the Claimant's evidence that she had been subjected throughout her employment to a lengthy course of discriminatory treatment because she was seen as not being a good Muslim woman, because she was not Muslim, and because male employees saw her as liable to be willing to engage in sexual conduct with male employees of the Embassy.

The Tribunal accepted that the treatment caused severe injury to feelings and a separate psychiatric injury, including clinical depression and anxiety which had continued for many years and remained under treatment. It awarded separate sums for injury to feelings, including aggravated damages, and psychiatric injury, finding that there was no double recovery because the humiliation, insult and feeling of being trapped in the job were distinct from the medical injury.

For economic loss, the Tribunal accepted the Claimant's calculations of past loss, found that a temporary contract in 2016 did not break the chain of causation, and accepted that she had mitigated her loss by applying for many jobs and undertaking temporary and voluntary work. It awarded past loss with interest, future loss for 18 months, unpaid holiday pay, and grossed up the award for tax. It also made a separate costs order of £7,000 because the Respondent had not defended the European law claims, had not engaged in the proceedings, and had not attended the remedy hearing.