When ‘detriment’ becomes discrimination

A woman chief inspector’s claim of ‘detriment’ when her superior officer decided that she should no longer conduct staff appraisals – although without demotion or loss of pay – was rejected.This was in line with the view of the Court of Appeal in Barclays Bank plc v Kapur (No 2) (1995), in which an unjustified sense of grievance cannot amount to detriment. In the case at issue the complainant had failed to provide suitable comparators to support an allegation of sex discrimination.