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6016455/2024Partially Successful

Leeds City Council

10 March 2026England & WalesEmployment Judge Elgot
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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.

Key Issues

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

Claim Types

Decision Text

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 The complaint in paragraph 7 f is withdrawn by the Clai...

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Case Details

Case Number
6016455/2024
Tribunal
Employment Tribunal
Level
First instance
Decision Date
10/03/2026
Published
02/04/2026
Jurisdiction
England & Wales
Judge
Employment Judge Elgot