Leeds City Council

Case Summary

Some of the claims were struck out as they were outside the statutory time limit, but the remaining claims will continue to a final hearing.

Some complaints were struck out because they related to events in March-September 2023 and were brought more than three months after those events, outside the statutory time limit under section 123 Equality Act 2010, and the tribunal did not consider it just and equitable to extend the time limit. The remaining complaints either fall within the time limit or form part of a continuing course of conduct extending to October 2024.

• •Complaints struck out due to time limit
• •Some complaints part of a course of conduct
• •Remaining complaints within time limit

1 EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant: Mr Dario Brown Respondent: Leeds City Council At a Preliminary Hearing Heard at: Leeds On: 23 February 2026 Before: Employment Judge Elgot Representation Claimant: Mrs K Brown Respondent: Ms S Firth, counsel The Employment Judge gave judgment as follows:- JUDGMENT 1. Some of the complaints in the Claim are struck out; these complaints are most clearly summarised in paragraphs 7 a-c of the Respondent’s draft List of Issues for the Preliminary Hearing on 23 February 2024 and in the first three lines of the red text of the ‘Key Dates’ section of the Respondent’s Skeleton Argument. Those complaints relate to events in March-September 2023. 2. A Tribunal has no jurisdiction to hear them because they have been made outside the statutory time limit in section 123 Equality Act 2010. The complaints have been brought after the end of the period of three months starting with the date of the act to which the complaints relate. 3. I do not consider it just and equitable to extend the time limit. 4. I am not satisfied that the events which form the basis of these specific and separate 2023 complaints consist of conduct extending over a period which ends within the Case Number: /202 2 statutory time limit. 5. The complaints in paragraph 7 d and e of the same draft List of Issues (the January 2024 allegations and the subsequent conduct of the 29 January 2024 investigation meeting) have been brought out of time but I am satisfied that they are part of a course of conduct extending over a period ending with the final written warning given to the Claimant on 17 October 2024. 6. The complaint in paragraph 7 f is withdrawn by the Clai…