Paterson v Metropolitan Police Commioner [2007] All ER (D) 346 (Jul)
The employee was a police officer. In 1999 he became a chief inspector. In 2004 he discovered that he was dyslexic.
He brought proceedings complaining that he had been discriminated against for a reason relating to his disability and that his employer had failed to make reasonable adjustments, particularly in the processes for determining whether he might be promoted to superintendent.
Held Carrying out an assessment or examination is properly to be described as a normal day-to-day activity for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; indeed, the act of reading and comprehension is itself a normal day-to-day activity.
The employee was therefore disabled for the purposes of the Act.
