Landmark Case: Recruitment and DDA

• Author:
• Steve Shutler

The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) was used to help a Chartered
Secretary to win his case when he took a company to an Employment Tribunal.
It is one of the few times that DDA has been used in a case involving mental
illness.

Mr Andrew Watkiss was offered a job as a Company Secretary for a
construction company in 1998. They withdrew their offer when Mr Watkiss
informed them he was a diagnosed schizophrenic. Although he had not suffered
an attack for eight years and was managing his cond... (32 more words)

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