Law at work 2021 - the trade union guide to employment law (July 2021)

Chapter 7

Interim relief in Equality Act cases?

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Interim relief (see Chapter 10: Dismissal) is not currently available for claims brought under the EA 10. However, the EAT has now ruled, in the case of Steer v Stormsure Limited[2020] UKEAT/0216/20/AT, that the absence of a remedy for interim relief in equality cases is probably an unlawful breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. This issue will now be resolved by the Court of Appeal and if the government loses, it will have to change the EA 10 to introduce this right.


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