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Law digest: Employment law

01 January 2009
Issue: 7350+7351 / Categories: Features , Discrimination , Disciplinary&grievance procedures
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Noor v Home Office [2008] All ER (D) 63 (Dec) (EAT)

The effects of an illness or disability can have an increasingly adverse effect on an employee, but once a tribunal has determined that the impairment did not have a substantial adverse effect on an employee’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities, there would have to be an appreciable difference in the facts relating to the adverse effects to prevent issue estoppel applying in the future.

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