Read issue-focused summaries of original judgments and their limits.
Coverage: 12 selected cases with original judgment sources. Includes procedural rulings, merits decisions and appeals; not a complete case-law search.
Selected relevant decisions, not an exhaustive legal database or a measure of discrimination prevalence. Findings, allegations and procedural rulings are distinguished. First-instance tribunal decisions do not create binding precedents. A case summary is not advice about an individual situation. Appeal history is reported only to the extent checked; absence of an identified appeal is not confirmation that none exists. Unnecessary personal medical details are omitted.
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Findings from release 1.1
12 selected case families: 3 appellate and 9 first-instance records. The digest distinguishes addiction, separate impairments, prescribed medication and workplace substance policies.
Three useful distinctions recur: disability status does not establish liability; a remittal does not establish a final win; and a medication/testing dispute need not involve addiction. Each record supplies exact paragraph-backed propositions and connected judgments.
The Truman summary now distinguishes the comparator approved by the EAT from the inadequate comparative-disadvantage reasoning. Smith’s disability, liability and remedy decisions and Rowley’s later reconsideration history are linked. Power and Hutchison remain research leads without verified accessible originals, not sources of new holdings here.
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Civil Liberties Action (2026). Addiction and employment law [Dataset]. Version 1.1, 2026-10-16. https://cla-political-finance.copperchime4.chatgpt.site/databases/releases/2026-10-16-v1.1/cases-research.html
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For an individual observation, cite its fixed-version record and the original source. Credit original publishers for their figures; CLA supplies the compilation, coding and stated analysis. Reuse terms.
Source examples
- Disability status is separate from proving discriminatory treatment — HMCTS: Atherton v 3DGBIRE Ltd, preliminary and final judgments
- Prescribed cannabis, rail certification and reasonable adjustments — HMCTS: Truman v SPL Powerlines UK Ltd and others [2026] EAT 54
- Drug-use allegations and a separate established disability — HMCTS: Smith v Addingtons Associates Ltd, judgments, reasons and remedy
Methods, review limits and corrections. Release 2026-10-16; AI-assisted compilation, with no independent external review completed.