Mr H Amin v Manchester Airports Group plc and 1 other — 2022

This was a preliminary hearing before Employment Judge Holmes sitting alone. The judge refused the claimant's recusal application under Locabail, then dealt with the respondents' strike-out applications for claims 4 and 5 and the alternative strike-out or deposit-order application for claim 6.

Claims 4 and 5 were struck out. They arose from the claimant's grievance about Lesley Hall's conduct in the meeting that Employment Judge Shotter had already held to be without prejudice. The tribunal held that the admissibility question could not be re-opened, that the underlying meeting evidence remained inadmissible, and that the grievance-based victimisation complaints had no reasonable prospects of success.

Claim 6 was not finally determined. It included constructive dismissal, wrongful dismissal, race and disability discrimination, victimisation and reasonable-adjustments complaints. The tribunal noted the claimant's contemporaneous emails and signed Occupational Health referral, the absence of a pleaded protected disability act, the lack of detail on direct discrimination and reasonable adjustments, and the difficulty of the last-straw argument. It made deposit orders of £25 on the ten claim heads listed in paragraph 79, postponed the June 2023 final hearing, and indicated that further medical evidence and an impact statement would be needed if the disability claims were to continue.