Mr P Sharpe v Office for National Statistics — 2021

The judgment concerned claims brought by Mr P Sharpe against the Office for National Statistics. The tribunal addressed complaints of disability discrimination identified in a case management order, together with complaints of unlawful deduction from wages, breach of the Working Time Regulations 1998, and a claim for damages for breach of contract.

For the disability discrimination complaints, the tribunal recorded that allegations 17 to 23 had been raised in the claim forms and did not require amendment, and that allegation 24 also did not require amendment because claim 2401010/2010, read as a whole, could reasonably be understood as including it. The remaining disability discrimination complaints required an amendment, and permission to amend was refused.

The tribunal held that it had no jurisdiction to consider the unlawful deduction from wages complaint, the Working Time Regulations complaint, or the breach of contract damages claim. It found that those complaints had been presented after the expiry of the statutory time limit, that it was reasonably practicable for them to have been presented in time, and that in any event they had not been presented within such further period as the tribunal considered reasonable.

The tribunal also held that it had no jurisdiction to consider disability discrimination allegations 17 to 24 because they were presented after the expiry of the statutory time limit and the claimant did not present them within such other period as the tribunal considered just and equitable. The claims were therefore dismissed. No monetary remedy was recorded.