The First-tier Tribunal accepted the taxpayer’s application that the hearing of their substantive appeal should be held in private and the substantive decision should be anonymised so as not to refer to anything that would, or might, enable the appellant’s identification. 

The appellant was previously employed in the financial services sector. Their employment in that sector ended pursuant to a settlement agreement following a claim for discrimination. The appellant entered the settlement agreement, thereby agreeing to what they believed was less than the sum they might have been awarded by an employment tribunal, because the appellant wanted to avoid a public hearing. The appellant’s first psychotic episode was in 2010, followed by a prolonged period of depression and anxiety lasting more than 12 months, which was triggered by workplace stress and represented what the appellant considered was the foundation for the discriminatory