Mr N H Hood v London Underground Limited — 2024

The claimant brought three claims containing complaints of disability discrimination, including harassment related to disability, direct disability discrimination, failure to make reasonable adjustments, indirect disability discrimination, and victimisation. The respondent had accepted that the claimant was disabled for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, but resisted the claims.

The tribunal upheld one harassment complaint concerning Ms Kaur's 25 January 2019 response to the claimant's complaint. It found that the claimant had indicated in an email footnote that he had a communications-based disability, and that Ms Kaur's statement that he had chosen not to read the relevant email wording was unwanted conduct related to disability which upset and offended him and had the effect of creating a hostile environment.

All remaining complaints of disability discrimination were dismissed. The tribunal found, among other reasons, that some allegations were out of time, some alleged PCPs were not established or were not PCPs, and the evidence did not establish the direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, victimisation, harassment, or reasonable adjustment complaints that remained.