Employment: Revised guidance for injury to feelings compensation

January 3, 2010

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled that the bands for damages
awarded for injury to feelings in unlawful discrimination cases (known
as “Vento” damages) should be increased in line with inflation, with
immediate effect.

Commentary

The EAT considered that it was appropriate to uplift damages
guidelines from time to time and agreed with the (undisputed) approach
of the parties that the appropriate method to use for such an uplift was
an increase in line with the retail price index.

The EAT also noted that appeals against the particular band of
damages used by a tribunal to determine an award for injury to feelings
would be more likely to be successfully challenged on a question of law
than the amount of the award itself, which was more likely to be a
question of fact, based on the individual circumstances of each case. 
The EAT stated that it would not “interfere” with findings on the
placement, within a band, of an award unless they were “manifestly
wrong”.

Resources

Da’Bell
v NSPCC

For further information, please contact Colina
Greenway (colina.greenway@abbisscadres.com)
on +44 (0) 203 051 5711.

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