Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd

Judgment approved by the court for handing down Mr Chowdhury v Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd © EAT 2025 Page 1 [2025] EAT 132 Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EAT 132 Case No: EA-2024-000643-NK EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL Rolls Building Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1NL Date:16 September 2025 Before : SARAH CROWTHER KC DEPUTY JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Between MR GOLAM CHOWDHURY Appellant -and- NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED Respondent - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mr Golam Chowdhury the Appellant appeared In Person Mr O Holloway (instructed by Dentons UK & Middle East LLP) for the Respondent Hearing date: 2 September 2025 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - JUDGMENT Judgment approved by the court for handing down Mr Chowdhury v Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd © EAT 2025 Page 2 [2025] EAT 132 SUMMARY DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION 1. The Tribunal took the correct approach when determining the Claimant’s claim that reasonable adjustments in respect of his disability ought to have included redeployment (with or without training) to alternative roles within the Respondent’s organisation or further time to obtain a suitable alternative role. It directed itself correctly as to the law and reached conclusions open to it on the evidence and in light of the primary facts as it had found them to be. 2. Challenges to findings by the Tribunal as to what would have happened had the Respondent asked helpdesk staff to swap jobs with the Claimant were subject to the same threshold as challenges to primary fact and would require the EAT to be satisfied that no reasonable Tribunal could have reached the same conclusion in order to succeed. The challenge in this case does not meet that threshold and the findings of the Tribunal were supported by its other conclusions on the facts and well ...