Boots Management Services Ltd

Case Summary

This is a preliminary hearing in a discrimination and unfair dismissal case. The claimant applied to amend her claim to include additional allegations relating to treatment between March 2020 and November 2024. The tribunal granted the amendment after applying the relevant legal tests and balancing the practical consequences and hardship to both parties.

The tribunal granted the amendment after carrying out a careful balancing exercise of all relevant factors, having regard to the interest of justice and the relative hardship that would be caused to the parties by granting or refusing the amendment, applying the principles established in Selkent Bus Co Ltd v Moore and subsequent case law.

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• •Whether to grant claimant's application to amend claim to include additional allegations of age, sex and disability discrimination
• •Assessment of hardship and injustice to both parties from granting or refusing amendment
• •Application of Selkent balancing test and relevant case law principles

Case No.2400992/2025 1 EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant: Mrs G Maddock Respondent: Boots Management Services Limited REPRESENTATION: Claimant: First Respondent: Mr Ryan, claimant’s son and lay representative. Mr Andrew MacPhail (Counsel) PRELIMINARY HEARING RESERVED JUDGMENT 1. The claimant’s application to amend her claim to include the matters set out in the draft list of issues in the case management orders dated 9 December 2025 is granted. REASONS Introduction 1. The claimant was employed by the respondent from 3 March 2020 until 26 November 2024. She presented her claim to the Employment Tribunal on 23 March 2025 and raises claims of age, sex and disability discrimination, failure to make reasonable adjustments, discrimination arising from disability, victiminisation and unfair dismissal. 2. This is the second preliminary hearing in this matter, the first being held on 9 December 2025 (“first preliminary hearing”). At that hearing the claimant in her Heard at: Manchester (in public: by video) On: 10 April 2026 Before: Employment Judge Dennehy Case No.2400992/2025 2 response to the respondent’s request for further and better particulars had included more allegations to her claim and today’s hearing was to consider the claimant’s application to amend her claim. Today’s hearing 3. The Tribunal had before it a 159 page bundle prepared by the respondent. 4. The amendments that the Tribunal to decide had been set out in the draft list of issues at the first preliminary hearing together with dates and times referred to in the email sent by the claimant on 2 December 2025. 5. The respondent objects to the claimant’s application. The Law 6. When assessing whether or not an application for an amendment to a claim should be granted, the Tribunal should first consider the real practical cons…