Bernadette Treanor is the founder of Beo Solutions, an employee relations and engagement consultancy which provides best practice expert leadership and impartial organisational support in the areas of employee relations, employee engagement, workplace investigations, disciplinary hearings and mediation.
An expert in equality law, Bernadette provides Equality reviews and assessments, including assessments of cases being prepared. She is a Committee member of the Employment Law Association of Ireland (ELAI) and CIPD member. She reviews equality Decisions issued by the Equality Tribunal for Legal Island monthly and chairs its annual Equality Conference aimed at equality practitioners.
Representative for the respondent objected to the case proceeding on the basis that the claim was res judicata, an identical case having been heard before a Rights Commissioner. The Equality Officer found that there was nothing in the Employment Equality Acts to prevent a claim being pursued under both it and the Maternity Protection Acts.
The Court considered the case before each forum and found that they were clearly grounded on the same facts. The doctrine of res judicata normally prohibits a party from seeking to litigate the same issue twice. In other words, the cause of action in the earlier action must be the same as that raised in the second action for the res judicata or cause
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