EAT Decision: Meaning of Disability

• Author:
• Daniel Barnett

No real legal principles, but an example of what does not amount to a disability. Mr Kirkton suffered from mild incontinence: he wore one or two incontinence pads a day, had occasional urinary leakage and needed to go the toilet about eight times a day. The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) upheld the tribunal's decision that this did not amount to a disability within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. In reaching this conclusion, the EAT accepted that the tribunal had ... (31 more words)

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