Too expensive for the job amounted to age discrimination

A senior solicitor was discriminated against because of his age after his application for a job at a law firm was rejected because he was "expensive". After turning down the solicitor, the firm had altered the job requirements to suit a more junior solicitor. The tribunal held that in this case, “expensive” was “synonymous with him being an experienced and older solicitor”.

He was awarded £13,188 which was a reduced figure to take into account:

1. On the basis that a "clash of personalities" upon his arrival at the firm would have meant that the appointment would only have lasted for one month before he was given a week's notice, and

2. the firm had ceased to carry out work in the claimant's area of law in the months following the interview.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d13720ded915d3191e71de5/Mr_Raymond_Levy_v_McHale_Legal_Limited_-_2413801_2018_-_Judgment.pdf