The claimant worked as a freelance broadcast journalist for the respondent.  He had been in the job for approximately two years.   He applied for a permanent position but was unsuccessful.  Both successful candidates were women.  When feedback was requested, he was told that the new project involved a younger audience and ‘Women agenda’.   He resigned from his position and brought a claim for constructive dismissal as well as direct sex discrimination.

The basis of his claim was his assertion that the interview panel had assumed he had a lack of knowledge on women’s issues because of his sex, as well as conversations with managers who had stated women were under-represented in the organisation.  At first instance, the Tribunal