Felix Ngole is taking legal action against a health and wellbeing charity after claiming his job offer as a mental health support worker was withdrawn after discovering his Christian beliefs on marriage.
With the support of the Christian Legal Centre, Ngole is suing Touchstone Support Leeds for religious discrimination. The case was being heard at an employment tribunal in Leeds at the start of April. A ruling has yet to be handed down. In 2019, the Court of Appeal allowed Ngole’s appeal against a ruling that his removal from a university social work course was lawful, after comments made on social media in support of traditional Biblical teaching on marriage.
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A university lecturer, James Wilson, has been awarded a total of £30,000 in damages. The sum of £7,500 was awarded against both James Mendelsohn, a law lecturer and Edward Cantor, a former restauranteur in a claim of defamation and the sum of £22,500 was awarded against just James Mendelsohn in respect of misuse of private information.
The judgement was made in the High Court of Justice, King’s Bench Division on 10 April. The judge, His Honour Richard Parkes KC, said that a tweet by Mendelsohn had ‘plainly inflamed feeling against [Wilson] and led to him receiving disgraceful abuse’.
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