TUESDAY LAW REPORT: Tribunal Can Hear Minister's Sex Discrimination Claim ; 20 DECEMBER 2005 Percy V Church of Scotland Board of National Mission ([2005] UKHL 73) House of Lords (Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Scott of Foscote and Baroness Hale of Richmond) 15 December 2005

Kate O'Hanlon, Barrister, The Independent (London, England)

An associate minister of the Church of Scotland had a contract of employment within s 82(1) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, and accordingly an employment tribunal had jurisdiction to hear her complaint of sex discrimination against the Church of Scotland Board of National Mission.

The House of Lords (Lord Hoffmann dissenting) allowed the appeal of Helen Percy against a decision that she could not bring a sex discrimination claim before an employment tribunal.

Ms Percy, an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland, was appointed to the position of associate minister in a Church of Scotland parish. She was sent a copy of the terms and conditions, which …

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