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March 9, 2014
A senior lawyer at a global banking firm has claimed she suffered a miscarriage due to the stress of being hounded out of her job and subjected to a string of racist remarks.
Angela Cobbina, 41, who was Dutch banking giant ABN Amro’s top lawyer in Britain, claims the firm’s UK chief executive Paul Schuilwerve made repeated racist comments at her expense and that led to her being ‘systematically frozen out’.
And she fears the stress of her ordeal could have contributed to her suffering a miscarriage early last year.
Now Ms Cobbina is suing the bank for a reported £300,000 for sex, race and religious discrimination over claims she was a victim of a ‘campaign’ of harassment.
A hearing at Central London Employment Tribunals today heard how Mr Schuilwerve strongly denies allegations of racism.
However, the tribunal heard he threw his support behind the controversial Dutch tradition of ‘Black Pete’.
The tradition, part of the annual Christmas St Nicholas parade, involves white people ‘blacking up’ and parading through the streets, has been condemned as racist by the UN.
In documents presented to the tribunal, Ms Cobbina said Mr Schuilwerve began his racist abuse the first time he met her in September 2012.
During the meeting in London he looked at a colour picture of the lawyer and remarked: ‘We cannot even see you in the picture.’ The lawyer claimed the remark was clearly a reference to her skin colour.
‘I felt upset, humiliated and belittled by Mr Schuilwerve’s comment about my photo,’ she said in her witness statement.
‘I did not make a complaint about Mr Schuilwerve’s comment at the time because he had been my line manager for less than 2 weeks and I did not wish to be seen as a trouble maker or deemed “sensitive”.’
Ms Cobbina, of Streatham, south London, claims that over the next 12 months she was the ‘target of a campaign designed to remove or drive me from the business.’
She added: ‘I was variously excluded, overlooked, targeted for undue criticism (including in connection with my performance, conduct, appearance and personal belief) and otherwise treated differently from my colleagues.’
At a meeting the following June she claims Mr Schuilwerze again ‘taunted’ her about her race after one of their colleagues described himself as the ‘black sheep of the family’.
The tribunal heard that the Dutch executive had said: ‘Speaking of that, what about Blackfriars? Let’s talk about all things black. Is Blackfriars the same as Blackadder?’
Ms Cobbina accused her boss of singling her out, and said: ‘Mr Schuilwerve’s exaggerated enunciation whenever he mentioned the word “black”.
‘I felt this emphasis was unusual. I was and am clear that his words were connected to my presence.
‘This is endorsed by the fact there is no logic to this remark. It is simply a series of unconnected words the incorporate the word black.’
In the midst of the alleged racist campaign against her, Ms Cobbina discovered she was pregnant during the Christmas break 2012.
