Mr Ray Joseph v The University of Aberdeen

The EAT set aside the strike out in part and remitted a direct discrimination issue to the ET. It upheld the refusal to add the Lawn Tennis Association as a respondent.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal gave its judgment on 24 July 2026 in Mr Ray Joseph v The University of Aberdeen. The appeal was from an Employment Tribunal decision that struck out the claim and refused an application to add the Lawn Tennis Association as a respondent.

The respondent accepted it was an error to strike out the whole claim where one email in a chain had been admitted as fabricated. The EAT upheld the appeal on that ground. It held that the direct discrimination complaint could include the circumstances in which any job offer was retracted or allowed to lapse.