Claimant v Trading 212 UK Ltd and others — 2023

The tribunal sat alone by video on 16 to 18 October 2023 to deal with a preliminary hearing in claims by Ms S Savoia against Trading 212 UK Ltd and individual respondents. The judgment records that the wider litigation included disability, race and sex discrimination, harassment, whistleblowing detriment and automatic unfair dismissal allegations; it also records that a wrongful dismissal claim had been dismissed upon withdrawal. The claimant had worked as Group Compliance & Risk Manager from 14 September 2020 to 2 September 2022.

On disability, the tribunal held that the claimant had not proved she was disabled within section 6 Equality Act 2010 during the material period, which it treated as 27 March 2022 to 6 December 2022. It accepted that she had long-standing depression, anxiety and panic attacks, but found the medical evidence limited and incomplete, with no formal diagnosis of clinical depression, no evidence for much of the material period, and unclear evidence about medication and the extent of any effect on normal day-to-day activities. The tribunal found that the evidence pointed to symptoms linked to stressful or emotional events, rather than a substantial and long-term adverse effect meeting the statutory test.

On strike out, the tribunal rejected strike out and deposit orders for most allegations, but struck out the specific Schedule A items. Those included sex victimisation allegations against M Kazmi, Julia Layton, R2, R4 and Andrew Driver; direct race discrimination allegations against M Kazmi, Nicholas Dent and R4; and a direct sex discrimination allegation against Juliana Souza-Ennis. It also recorded withdrawals of several race discrimination allegations and one discrimination-arising-from-disability allegation against Philip Parsons. No deposit order and no monetary award were made, and the remaining allegations were left to proceed.