Background

The Revd David Green was an assistant curate in deacon’s orders at St Bartholomew, Longnor, in the Diocese of Lichfield. He brought a claim against the Diocesan Board of Finance and the Bishop for detrimental treatment and discrimination. His primary complaint was that the Bishop had made an unreasonable decision not to ordain him to the priesthood.

A preliminary case management hearing in July 2023 before Employment Judge Slater, Reverend D Green v Lichfield Diocesan Board of Finance [2023] UKET 2409635/2022, had been primarily about whether he had the status to enable him to bring complaints of detrimental treatment as a result of making protected disclosures (“whistleblowing”) under the Employment Rights Act 1996 [‘ERA’] and of disability discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 [‘EqA’] based on a perception that he was disabled by reason of autism [1 & 2]. He claimed, inter alia, that he had suffered the detriment of refusal to ordain him as a priest as a result of making a public interest disclosure [3]. Continue reading →