Skip to Main Content
Prepared for Unknown User. © ICLR 2026

Essop v Home Office (UK Border Agency)

Subject Matter

DISCRIMINATION — Race — Indirect discrimination — Employees with race and age characteristics disproportionately failing test for promotion — Claims of indirect discrimination — Whether necessary for employees to show protected characteristic reason for failure — Equality Act 2010, s 19

UKEAT/480/13; [2014] ICR 871, EAT

[2015] EWCA Civ 609; [2015] ICR 1063; [2016] 3 All ER 137; [2015] WLR (D) 269, CA

DISCRIMINATION — Indirect discrimination — Proof — Claimants in first case part of group of employees with race and age characteristics disproportionately failing test for promotion — Claimant in second case Muslim chaplain employed in Prison Service where pay system partly based on length of service — Fewer Muslim chaplains on higher grades as none employed before 2002 — Claims of indirect discrimination — Whether necessary for claimants to show that protected characteristic material cause of relevant group and individual disadvantage — Equality Act 2010 (c 15), s 19

[2017] UKSC 27; [2017] 1 WLR 1343; [2017] ICR 640; [2017] 3 All ER 551; [2017] WLR (D) 244; Case details, SC(E)

Appellate History

Essop v Home Office (UK Border Agency) UKEAT/480/13; [2014] ICR 871, EAT

Decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal reversed

Essop v Home Office (UK Border Agency) [2015] EWCA Civ 609; [2015] ICR 1063; [2016] 3 All ER 137; [2015] WLR (D) 269, CA

Naeem v Secretary of State for Justice [2015] EWCA Civ 1264; [2016] ICR 289; [2015] WLR (D) 517, CA

Decision of the Court of Appeal affirmed on different grounds

Essop v Home Office (UK Border Agency) [2017] UKSC 27; [2017] 1 WLR 1343; [2017] ICR 640; [2017] 3 All ER 551; [2017] WLR (D) 244; Case details, SC(E)

Essop v Home Office (UK Border Agency) [2015] EWCA Civ 609; [2015] ICR 1063; [2016] 3 All ER 137; [2015] WLR (D) 269, CA

Decision of the Court of Appeal reversed

Essop v Home Office (UK Border Agency) [2017] UKSC 27; [2017] 1 WLR 1343; [2017] ICR 640; [2017] 3 All ER 551; [2017] WLR (D) 244; Case details, SC(E)

Subscribe or Register to access the full case information page. Registered users can access three Law Reports, three case information pages and perform three Case Genie searches per month. If you already have an ICLR account please log in. For other queries or to request a free trial please contact ICLR.

MoJ users should log in here.

We use cookies on this website, you can read our Privacy and Cookies Policy. To use website as intended please Accept Cookies