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A female deck officer was the victim of sex discrimination after being denied an interview for a job on a cargo ship because she was a woman – but a legal loophole meant the firm escaped punishment.

A senior judge said Wallem Shipmanagement’s “conduct had been reprehensible” when former Fleetwood Nautical College student Sophia Walker was told the firm only recruited men to work on its client's ship.

But the honourable Mr Justice Kerr said the Employment Appeal Tribunal was powerless to act when it heard the case in London, as the job was on a foreign vessel sailing outside UK waters.

Judges 'powerless to fight injustice' after Fleetwood student is 'denied job interview because she's a woman'