Proposed compulsory retirement can give rise to a timely age discrimination claim before retirement takes effect.

The Complainant, a professor, alleged age discrimination arising from the Academy’s decision to impose retirement at 70. He had worked for the Academy since 1995 and had held a contract of indefinite duration since 2011. He disputed that 70 constituted his agreed retirement age, pointing to colleagues who had continued working into their eighties and nineties. The Academy initially offered a two-year, non-renewable contract involving reduced teaching hours and the transfer of his private students. He considered those conditions discriminatory and less favourable than his existing employment arrangements. His solicitors challenged the proposed retirement and asserted his entitlement to continue working without