Background

Readers with long memories may recall that when Felix Ngole was a second-year Master’s student on a social work course at Sheffield University, he was excluded from the course by the Faculty of Social Sciences Fitness to Practise Committee after comments he had posted on Facebook about his personal opposition to same-sex marriage. He sought judicial review of that decision, and though the Administrative Court found for the University, in R (Ngole) v The University of Sheffield [2019] EWCA Civ 1127 the Court of Appeal allowed his appeal and remitted his case for reconsideration. We noted the appeal here.

Mr Ngole duly qualified as a social worker in 2021, but in 2024 he was before an Employment Tribunal complaining of direct discrimination by health and wellbeing charity Touchstone Leeds.

The facts

In Mr F Ngole v Touchstone Leeds [2024] UKET 1805942/2022, the facts were as follows.

Mr Ngole applied for a post with Touchstone as a discharge mental health support worker at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield. Continue reading →