“A maid who accused her wealthy employers of treating her like a slave lost her compensation claim after being found to have told ‘malicious lies.’ ”
The Independent, 5th November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A Britain’s Got Talent hopeful who claimed she was discriminated against at her audition, has failed to get her case taken to an employment tribunal.”
BBC News, 2nd September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Historic Royal Palaces apologises to Mark Sanders-Crook who was dismissed for alleged bullying of first female beefeater.”
The Guardian, 2nd September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Six white officers from the Metropolitan police’s controversial territorial support group (TSG) are to sue the force for racial discrimination, it emerged today.”
The Guardian, 24th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A dentist did not qualify as an employee or even as a ‘worker’ under employment law because he could have supplied locums to do his work and still fulfil his contract, the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th August 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“A housing official sacked after suggesting a woman with an incurable illness ‘put her faith in God’ has lost his legal challenge.”
BBC News, 11th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge has with a ‘heavy heart’ allowed the Crown Prosecution Service to continue defending an employment tribunal claim that has already been in court four times and cost the taxpayer more than £1m, including a record £600,000 in damages for racial discrimination.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 15th July 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Halima Aziz is approaching her tenth stressful year of litigation against her former employer, the Crown Prosecution Service. As an ex-CPS prosecutor in Yorkshire, her case for racial discrimination has so far been through four major court hearings, cost the state more than £1m, including a record £600,000 damages, and looks like becoming the longest-running discrimination case in history.”
The Guardian, 6th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Workers who claim disability discrimination on account of depression should have their cases assessed by the effect of their condition rather than on the basis of strict medical diagnosis, the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 21st June 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“A firm that ‘gratuitously’ mentioned a solicitor’s previous discrimination claim against it when providing an employment reference to another firm has lost an appeal in the Employment Appeal Tribunal.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 17th June 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A woman lawyer has won her appeal against an employment tribunal ruling that disability discrimination did not lie behind a major law firm’s decision to withdraw a job offer.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 17th June 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Forty years on, the gender pay gap remains a yawning chasm. And with access to justice through employment tribunals loaded against the ordinary person, that is unlikely to change.”
The Guardian, 7th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Heather Mills’ ex-nanny has lost her unfair dismissal and sex discrimination case against her former boss.”
BBC News, 4th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A male lawyer was wrongfully sacked because bosses were worried they would be sued if they fired his female counterpart while she was on maternity leave, it emerged yesterday.”
The Independent, 19th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“National firm Eversheds last week lodged an appeal against an Employment Tribunal ruling that it must pay £123,300 in compensation to a male associate who suffered sexual discrimination during the firm’s 2009 redundancy programme.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 13th May 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The first case to reach the Employment Appeal Tribunal concerning a dispute between two law firms over the employment law implications of winning a client contract from another firm has provided ‘much-needed clarification’ on the issue, experts have said.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 29th April 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Hundreds of female council employees who took their claims for equal pay to an employment tribunal have won their case.”
BBC News, 27th April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A senior lawyer, Deidre Clark, sacked from a leading city firm after she wrote a sexually explicit online novel is suing her former employers for £3.5 million.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“This is not the last we have heard from Sharon Shoesmith and her campaign to prove she was made a scapegoat over the tragic death of Baby Peter.”
The Independent, 24th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Mediation provided by judges in Employment Tribunal cases has failed to achieve the anticipated time and cost savings over unmediated cases, the results of a pilot scheme have revealed.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd April 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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