27 Sept 2000
K AND OTHERS v. SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE
- Citation
- K AND OTHERS v. SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCEO3/1999
Court held plaintiffs were discriminated against on the ground of an associate's disability. Genetic risk or imputed disability does not, by itself, amount to a disability under the definition; paragraph (iii) does not convert generic future risk into a present disability. The s12(2) exemption was not made out for K and W because individualized assessment showed their actual risk to be low and not a real/unacceptable risk to safety in those roles; Y's claim was unlawful because his father probably had delusional disorder not schizophrenia, so no established genetic liability. Employers must p…