ABSTRACT
It is clearly necessary to provide legal protection for people who take legal action under anti-discrimination law or assist others to do so.1
Bourn, C and Whitmore, J, Anti-Discrimination Law in Britain, 3rd edn, 1996, London: Sweet & Maxwell, p 83:2
In reality, adverse employer reaction is not uncommon, as is shown by [Leonard’s] survey of the experiences of successful claimants undertaken by the EOC. The existence of the section on victimisation was not effective in preventing the fact of having taken action under the sex discrimination legislation from having an adverse effect on the careers and working experience of many of the applicants who had ... been successful in the tribunals, partly because the pressures to which they were subject were often subtle and informal.
