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Liability Risk and Insurance

Tribunal must not substitute own risk assessment

Where an employer’s reason for less favourable treatment of a disabled employee was based on a properly conducted risk assessment, an employment tribunal could only consider whether the reason met statutory criteria. It was not entitled to make its own appraisal of evidence or undertake its own risk assessment.

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