Aegon UK Corporate Services Ltd

Case Summary

The Employment Tribunal refused the respondent’s application for strike out or, alternatively, a deposit order. The tribunal held that the relevant disability discrimination complaints could not be said to have no or little reasonable prospects of success.

• •strike out application for disability discrimination claims
• •failure to make reasonable adjustments

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 8001170/2024 Held in Edinburgh on 31 October 2025 Employment Judge Sutherland 5 Mr M Allen Claimant Represented by: Mr L Anderson , Solicitor 10 Aegon UK Corporate Services Limited Respondent Represented by: 15 Ms K Sutherland, Solicitor JUDGMENT OF THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL The Judgment of the Tribunal is that the respondent’s application for strike out failing 20 which deposit is refused. REASONS Introduction 1. The claimant has made complaints of disability discrimination. It is not in dispute that the claimant has disability status as a result of Multiple Sclerosis 25 which has symptoms of Postural Tachycardia (PoTS) and Coronary Artery Spasm (CAS). 2. On 10 June 2025 the respondent made an application for strike out failing which a deposit on the basis that certain complaints have little or no reasonable prosects of success. A preliminary hearing listed for today to 30 determined that application. 3. Parties had prepared a bundle of documents. No witness gave oral testimony at this hearing. The Respondent lodged written submissions. Both parties made oral submissions. 8001170/2024 Page 2 4. The claim is in a detailed narrative style and significant attempts had been made by the respondent in correspondence and by the tribunal at Case Management Hearings to try to ascertain exactly what legal complaints were being made and on what grounds. Notwithstanding those efforts, considerable time was spent at today’s hearing establishing what complaints 5 were insisted upon by the claimant. 5. Following detailed discussion it was expressly confirmed that the complaints identified in the following tables are the only complaints being made by the claimant and all and any other prior complaints are withdrawn. Accordingly there are no complaints of direct discrimination or indirect d…