The complainant was awarded €63,000 by the Equality Tribunal who found that the complainant had correctly identified the respondent as her employer going on to address the substantive complaints. The respondent did not engage with the Tribunal, apparently through inadvertence, but the Court found “the Equality Officer correctly held that in either case a change in the name of the respondent for the purposes of his investigation was unnecessary”.

The Court was satisfied that the complainant named the wrong respondent as a result of a bona fide mistake where the respondent appeared to hold itself out as her employer in earlier proceedings. “Moreover, the Respondent accepted proceedings in the within case and failed to deny that it was the