The Weekly Law Reports
[2021] 1 WLR 3863
Supreme Court
*Efobi v Royal Mail Group Ltd
[2021] UKSC 33
2021 April 27; July 23
Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Briggs, Lady Arden, Lord Hamblen, Lord Leggatt JJSC
Discrimination— Race— Burden of proof— Academically qualified claimant making numerous unsuccessful job applications to employer— Claim of discrimination on ground of race— Whether burden on claimant to prove facts from which inference of discrimination possible— Whether adverse inferences to be drawn from fact employer adduced no evidence as to reasons for not selecting claimant—
Equality Act 2010 (c 15), ss 13(1), 136