Architect Elsie Owusu has begun her Employment Tribunal claim against the RIBA, accusing the institute of sex discrimination, race discrimination, harassment and victimisation.

The former 2018 presidential candidate began her battle with RIBA bosses with a preliminary hearing behind closed doors in London last week.

Her action alleges that RIBA removed her from its Architects for Change working group – tasked with improving diversity in the profession – last year after she refused to exclude two other black women council members from a meeting to select new members for its advisory panel.

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