Corby v Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service [2023]

Posted In: Case Law
  • Decision Number
    06444311
  • Legal Body
    Employment Tribunal (ET)
  • Type of Claim / Jurisdiction
    Discrimination
Issues covered: Discrimination; Religion and Belief

Background: 

The claimant is employed as an individual conciliator by the respondent.   His race is white and the race of his wife and children is blackThe issue pertaining to this preliminary hearing was related to his beliefThere were two beliefs for the Tribunal to adjudicate upon. 

The first was his belief relating to race in which he stated the ‘woke’ approach to racism is misconceived in that its belief in structural racism is divisive because it tends to see white people as a problem that can result in separatism, segregation and ethnocentrism.   Instead, he stated he preferred the approach of Martin Luther King in which people are

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This article is correct at 11/10/2023
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