Ms Shukri Jama-Yusuf v LHR Airports Limited — 2021

This was an open preliminary hearing to decide disability status. The claimant had been employed by the respondent from 16 January 2017 until her dismissal on 14 December 2018, and brought complaints of disability discrimination. The tribunal recorded that the unfair dismissal claim stood to be dismissed because she lacked two years' qualifying service.

The respondent accepted that dyslexia was a physical and/or mental impairment and that it was long term, but disputed diagnosis of dyspraxia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia and disputed substantial adverse effect on normal day-to-day activities. The tribunal considered the Equality Act 2010, the statutory guidance, a 2008 needs assessment and psychological report, GP letters, and the claimant's impact statement.

The tribunal found that the claimant had severe dyslexia causing a substantial adverse effect on reading and writing on paper and on a computer, and that related symptoms associated with dyspraxia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia added cumulatively to that disability. It did not find that the claimant had established depression, anxiety, dyspraxia, dysgraphia or dyscalculia as separate diagnosed disabilities, nor that she had established a substantial adverse effect on oral communication. The tribunal concluded that she was disabled at all material times by reason of dyslexia.