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Ex-sustainability boss wins tribunal battle over climate change views

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Nov 03, 2009

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Judge allows case for unfair dismissal to go ahead by ruling that strong environmental conviction is akin to religious belief

A man who claims his quasi-religious environmental beliefs led to his sacking won his fight to take his former employer to a tribunal yesterday.

Tim Nicholson, 42, former head of sustainability at Grainger, one of the UK's largest property companies, claims his views on climate change were so serious it led to clashes with other senior staff.

Nicholson, from Oxford, accused Grainger's chief executive, Rupert Dickinson, of showing "contempt" for his concerns, and claimed he once flew a member of staff to Ireland to deliver his BlackBerry which he had left in London.

His case can now go ahead after an employment appeal judge ruled in his favour, based on a ruling that such a strong environmental conviction is akin to a religious belief.

His solicitor, Shah Qureshi, said: "Essentially what the judgment says is that a belief in man-made climate change and the alleged resulting moral imperative is capable of being a philosophical belief and is t

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