Jones v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Subject Matter

EMPLOYMENT — Discrimination — Time limit — Claimant unsuccessfully applying for job with government agency — Claim for race discrimination brought after primary limitation period expired — Claimant not told ethnicity of successful candidate until preliminary hearing — Employment tribunal concluding that not just and equitable to extend time — Whether tribunal acting perversely — Appropriate approach to extension of time limits

[2024] EAT 2; [2024] ICR D11; [2024] IRLR 275, EAT

EMPLOYMENT — Discrimination — Time limit — Claimant unsuccessfully applying for job — Claim for race discrimination brought after expiry of primary limitation period — Claimant not told ethnicity of successful candidate until preliminary hearing — Whether “just and equitable” to extend time — Equality Act 2010 (c 15), s 123(1)

[2024] EWCA Civ 1568; [2025] ICR 738; [2025] IRLR 282; [2024] WLR(D) 555, CA

Appellate History

Commentary

Cloisters chambers
Court of Appeal considers relevant factors for the ‘just and equitable’ test Case comment