Mr Mosley-Redman v Department for Work and Pensions — 2025

At the public preliminary hearing on 8 August 2025, Employment Judge Iman held that the Tribunal had no jurisdiction to consider the claimant's unlawful deduction of wages complaint insofar as it concerned payments he said he would have received had he remained in post. The judgment said that aspect had no reasonable prospect of success, and the claims were struck out.

The Tribunal also held that it had no jurisdiction over claims for pregnancy and/or maternity brought by a male claimant, referring to section 18 of the Equality Act. That claim therefore did not proceed.

The claimant's oral application to amend to add disability discrimination and a grievance-related allegation was refused. The Tribunal said those matters were not in the ET1 or the further and better particulars, were not shown to have been raised at the 3 March 2025 case management hearing, would amount to a substantial new claim with time limit issues, and remained too vague to justify amendment in the interests of justice. A further application to amend to add sex discrimination, based on being male and taking paternity leave, was also refused because it was late, vague, and not shown to have reasonable prospects of success; the Tribunal said the balance of hardship and injustice favoured the respondent. The judgment ended by striking out the claims.