Mr D Taheri v Parkdean Resorts UK Limited — 2019

This was a preliminary hearing concerning a Manchester complaint alleging race and age discrimination and a Newcastle complaint alleging disability discrimination against a prospective employer. The claimant withdrew the race discrimination complaint in case 3303673/2018 after accepting that the successful candidate for the Scottish role was not Scottish. The tribunal therefore dismissed that complaint upon withdrawal.

The tribunal struck out the age discrimination complaint in case 3303673/2018. It held that the claimant's reliance on an email referring to managers looking for "less experienced sales people" did not give rise to a reasonable inference that the respondent was seeking younger applicants. Reading the email in context, the tribunal considered it more likely to refer to relevant industry experience and concluded that the age claim had no reasonable prospect of success.

In case 2500128/2019, the tribunal refused the respondent's application to strike out the disability discrimination claims. Although the judge considered the claimant likely to face difficulty in proving that decision-makers knew of his disability and that disability was part of the reason for rejection, the tribunal was not satisfied that the claims had no reasonable prospect of success. A separate deposit order was made.