BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd v Konczak: EAT 13 Jan 2014

EAT Sex Discrimination : Other Losses – UNFAIR DISMISSAL – Compensation
DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION – Compensation
The Employment Tribunal had erred by not considering whether the psychiatric illness, which resulted in the loss in this case, had divisible causes and whether, if it did, the award fell to be apportioned. In concluding that there had been a failure to mitigate commencing three years after the date of dismissal the Employment Tribunal had failed to give any comprehensible account as to why that date had been chosen. Both of these matters raised on the Employer’s appeal were remitted for further consideration by the same Employment Tribunal on the evidence already heard and the facts already found
On the cross-appeal mathematical errors of calculation in the judgment were remitted to the Employment Tribunal for reconsideration, but although the cross-appeal was also allowed in relation to a decision made by the Employment Tribunal wrongly limiting the scope of the cross-examination of the Employer’s psychiatric expert witness, no further order was made because the terms of the remission in relation to the appeal rendered the point academic.

Judge Hand QC
[2014] UKEAT 0243 – 13 – 1301
Bailii
England and Wales

Employment

Updated: 01 December 2021; Ref: scu.522636