27 Sept 2000
K AND OTHERS v. SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE
- Citation
- K AND OTHERS v. SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCEO7/1999
The court held that the defendant's refusals/dismissal were unlawful discrimination under s11 DDO because the departments failed to establish that the associate's disability produced a real, job-related risk to safety sufficient to bring the case within the s12(2) exception; a mere genetic risk or blanket policy excluding first-degree relatives was insufficient without individualised assessment (including multifactorial risk modelling and prodromal examination); where individualised assessment showed low adjusted risk (and no prodromal signs) the exemption did not apply and discrimination rem…