
Watson -v- Hilary Meredith, (a case of Causation -v- Correlation between protected disclosure and detriment).
Mr Justice Cavanagh sitting at the Employment Appeal Tribunal refused to draw the inference that the Claimant/Appellant’s protected disclosure must have been the reason for his subsequent dismissal. The Judge concluded that the employment tribunal, was entitled to find the reason for dismissal was ‘separate and distinct’ from the protected disclosures. In this case Mr…