In Court
| Published date | 01 June 1996 |
| Date | 01 June 1996 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455059604300218 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
of his officers at his instruction to
make clear to (the defendant) that his
views were not acceptable and that his
request not to be dealt with by a black
officer had been promptly rejected.
That inactivity was apt to convey to
him the impression that he had
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The second defendant was challenged
some 12 months after the event. The
In a recent case before the Industrial
Tribunal considered that reasons put
Tribunal, a black probation officer
forward to justify such excessive delay
succeeded in a complaint of unlawful
(ie the black officer wanted the
racial discrimination against their
individual prosecuted and had also
employing Probation Committee. The
invoked the Service’s grievance
basis of the complaint was that the
procedure) were ’wholly inadequate
Committee failed to take prompt and
justifications for inaction’.
effective action to protect the officer
The Tribunal was satisfied that by
from racial abuse and threats of violence
failing to give adequate assurance to the
on racial grounds directed towards that
black officer that their personal safety
officer by two users of the Service.
was a high priority and by their inertia
In the first instance a defendant
when faced with racist behaviour and
remanded for a pre-sentence report had
expression by service users, the Committee
said to the court duty officer that he did
had treated that officer less favourably on
not want the black officer to prepare his
racial grounds. Compensation was
report, using grossly offensive racist
awarded.
language. In the second instance, a man
The Commission for Racial Equality
who had been supervised by the officer
has since written to all Services inviting
on a combination order and had been
’important lessons to be learnt from this
subsequently imprisoned following
case’, ’mere policies’ clearly being an
breach and revocation of that order,
insufficient response to...
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