Ekpe v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2001] IRLR 605 EAT

Disability discrimination: Putting rollers in hair and applying make-up are "normal day-to-day activities"

Date:

15 July 2001

In Ekpe v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the EAT reverses an employment tribunal's decision that a woman with an impairment of her right hand, constituting a weakness of some of the muscles required for its full function, did not have a disability for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.