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Sex and race discrimination: Individual remedies

This section of the Discrimination Case Law Guide looks at individual remedies for sex and race discrimination.

Compensation
     General principles
     Aggravated damages
     Exemplary damages
     Psychiatric injury
     Injury to feelings
     Unintentional indirect discrimination
     Mitigation
     Interest
Action recommendation
Other statutory redress

(1) Where an employment tribunal finds that a complaint presented to it under [s.63 - SDA; s.54 - RRA] is well-founded the tribunal shall make such of the following as it considers just and equitable -

(a) an order declaring the rights of the complainant and the respondent in relation to the act to which the complaint relates;

(b) an order requiring the respondent to pay to the complainant compensation of an amount corresponding to any damages he could have been ordered by a county court or by a sheriff court to pay to the complainant if the complaint had fallen to be dealt with under [s.66 - SDA; s.57 - RRA];

(c) a recommendation that the respondent take within a specified period action appearing to the tribunal to be practicable for the purpose of obviating or reducing the adverse effect on the complainant of any act of discrimination to which the complaint relates.