Grainger plc v Nicholson [2010] IRLR 4 (EAT) is a UK employment discrimination law case, concerning the protection of religion or belief.
Regarding the question of an employee's conviction about climate change, it examines the scope of the legislation's protection.
Mr Nicholson was made redundant from Grainger plc, the UK's largest listed specialist landlord.
At Paragraph 24 of the judgment [2], he set out the five criteria for this: The final requirements (democratic respectability and compatibility with human dignity) exclude those beliefs that reject social pluralism or that indignify other people.
Although Burton upheld the Tribunal's preliminary decision as to applicable law, he directed it to permit such an inquiry before concluding that Nicholson held (or did not hold) a protected philosophical belief.