Ms Karen Rahman v University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust — 2025

The Tribunal found that the claimant's claims for failure to make reasonable adjustments, disability harassment and constructive unfair dismissal were presented out of time on 14 May 2023. It concluded that it had no jurisdiction to hear the Equality Act claims because they were not presented within a just and equitable further period, and no jurisdiction to hear the constructive unfair dismissal claim because it was not presented within such further period as the Tribunal considered reasonable.

On the disability issues addressed in the reasons, the respondent accepted that the claimant was disabled by depression and degenerative spinal disease, but did not accept that diabetes amounted to a disability. The Tribunal preferred the respondent's evidence on disputed knowledge of the spinal condition by the claimant's line manager and was not satisfied that the alleged driving, office chair, DSE assessment or lone-working matters put the claimant at a substantial disadvantage in the way alleged.

The Tribunal also stated that the constructive dismissal claim would have failed even if it had jurisdiction. It drew an inference from the resignation letter and the claimant's completion of an eight-week notice period that she did not then believe the respondent had destroyed or seriously damaged trust and confidence, and it was not satisfied that the respondent had acted in that way.