Dr Noha Mellor v University of Bedfordshire — 2021

This was a preliminary hearing heard by telephone at Watford on 13 October 2021 before Employment Judge McNeill QC sitting alone. The claimant was Dr Noha Mellor and the respondent was the University of Bedfordshire. The hearing dealt only with case management and withdrawals of claims, not any merits findings.

The tribunal recorded that the claimant’s claim for direct race discrimination was dismissed on withdrawal by the claimant. The tribunal also recorded that the claimant’s claim for detriment by reason of making protected disclosures was dismissed on withdrawal by the claimant. No findings of fact or liability were made on those two claims.

The tribunal further stated that the claimant’s remaining claims for victimisation would proceed to a full merits hearing. No remedy was awarded in this judgment, and no legal test was set out in the short record of preliminary hearing beyond the procedural recording of the withdrawals.