Scotch Whiskey Auctions Ltd

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 8001912/2024 Held in Glasgow on 19 – 23 January 2026 Deliberations on 26 and 27 January 2026 Employment Judge D Hoey Mr H Aberdeen Claimant In Person Scotch Whiskey Auctions Ltd Respondent Represented by: Mr M Briggs - Counsel [Instructed by Hourwich Farrelly] JUDGENT OF THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL 1. The claimant was not unfairly dismissed. 2. The complaints of unlawful harassment and direct discrimination are ill founded. 3. The claim is dismissed. REASONS 1. The claimant raised a complaint for unfair dismissal and a number of complaints in connection with disability discrimination. Two case management preliminary hearings had been heard and Notes had been issued following both, with the latter hearing being conducted by me at which matters were focussed and it was agreed a full hearing would be convened with the issues arising in relation to the complaints the claimant was advancing having been agreed and set out in detail. 2. The Hearing began by a reminder of the overriding objective and the need for both parties to work together to assist the Tribunal in ensuring that everything that was done was fair and just with due regard to cost and proportionality. 3. The claimant had a mental impairment and it was agreed that the claimant be given considerable leeway during his answering of questions (and be allowed to deal with any issue he considered relevant in relation to the question before 8001912/2024Page2 moving on). I had also given the claimant the first full day of the Hearing after a discussion about the issues to carefully consider each of the issues arising in respect of the complaints being advanced, to finalise a statement of agreed and disputed facts and to prepare a written witness statement that would be taken as his eviden...