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An admin worker with Chinese heritage who sued a solicitors firm after a paralegal colleague told her 'all Chinese run chip shops' has won a near £10,000 payout. David Bridge, a paralegal at Bristol-based Watkins Solicitors, had a 'tendency to make inappropriate comments' and left Sherlando Sutherland, a black female, feeling 'upset and embarrassed'. An employment tribunal heard that Ms Sutherland mentioned her grandmother was Chinese, before Mr Bridge shocked her by asking: 'Does she own a chip shop, all Chinese own chip shops?' She told a panel that Mr Bridge had also boasted that 'someone had tried to get...
