AN ENGLISH teacher with cystic fibrosis who was discriminated against by his employer won the final round of a long-running legal battle at the Court of Appeal yesterday.

Philip Grosset became head of English at the Joseph Rowntree School in New Earswick, outside York, and “succeeded in turning around the fortunes of the department,” which achieved its best-ever GCSE results in 2013.

But a new headteacher who “had not been briefed” about Mr Grosset’s disability increased his workload, introducing an “innovation” called a “focus fortnight” designed to encourage “greater reflection” within the department.