‘A disabled teacher who showed the 18-rated film Halloween to a class of 15- and 16-year-olds has had his claim for discrimination arising from disability upheld in the Court of Appeal and is reportedly set to receive a £646,000 payout.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th May 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A midwife who was sacked for taking too many sick days after she fell ill because of a lack of toilets at work has won an employment tribunal.’
The Independent, 14th April 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The issue of the employment status of people who perform casual work – and its complexity – has come up yet again, this time in Mrs M Wright v St John the Evangelist Parochial Church Council (England and Wales: Breach of Contract) [2018] UKET 3200595/2017.’
Law & Religion UK, 5th April 2018
Source: www.lawandreligionuk.com
‘The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed an appeal brought by a head teacher who was sacked after she failed to disclose her friendship with a convicted sex offender to a local authority.’
Local Government Lawyer, 15th March 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The leading unregulated provider of employment law services unfairly dismissed a senior employee, an employment tribunal has found.’
Legal Futures, 3rd January 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘This recent judgment of the Court of Appeal resolved two important questions:
1. Where a line manager, who is not involved in the investigatory or disciplinary process, has tainted the evidence supplied to a person deciding whether an employee should be dismissed, and that decision-maker is innocent of any discriminatory motivation, whose knowledge or state of mind is to be attributed to the employer for the purpose of s.103A of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA 1996)?
2. Can an employee recover damages for dismissal consequent on detriment in the whistleblowing context?
Old Square Chambers, 6th December 2017
Source: www.oldsquare.co.uk
‘Is the ET required, when deciding whether to give permission to amend a claim to add a new claim which may be out of time, to decide the ‘time point’? Not necessarily, according to the judgment of the EAT in Galilee v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis.’
Old Square Chambers, 30th November 2017
Source: www.oldsquare.co.uk
‘A week in which the Westminster sexual exploitation scandal continued to claim scalps, there was an important report on House of Lords reform – and Brexit rumbled on’
Law & Religion UK, 5th November 2017
Source: www.lawandreligionuk.com
‘If you work for an embassy in London and are not a UK national, you cannot sue your employing state when you get unfairly dismissed. But if you enter a commercial contract with the same embassy, you can sue them.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th October 2017
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Protected disclosure claims continue to keep employment lawyers, Tribunals and the EAT busy. The attractions of whistleblowing claims for claimants are well rehearsed: no qualification period for unfair dismissal claims and no cap on compensation, plus a whistleblowing claim can raise the publicity stakes for respondents.’
11KBW, 10th August 2017
Source: www.11kbw.com
‘Navid Pourghazi considers the recent decision in Gillett v Bridge 86 Ltd (UKEAT/0015/17/DM) where the EAT overturned a refusal of an in-time application to amend a claim form and provided helpful guidance on how Tribunals should deal with such applications in the future. A copy of the judgment is available here.’
Cloisters, 27th July 2017
Source: www.cloisters.com
‘Whilst the Taylor Review may be the talking point of the week, Michael Duggan QC writes that the case of Chesterton Global Limited v Mohamed Nurmohamed, Public Concern At Work (intervener) [2017] EWCA Civ 979, 10th July 2017 is perhaps the case of the week. It concerns the vexed question of good faith in public interest disclosures of whistleblowing.’
Littleton Chambers, 19th July 2017
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
‘The recent case of Vining & Ors v London Borough of Wandsworth [2017] EWCA Civ 1092 represents an attempt to circumvent restrictions on certain types of officers from enjoying employment law rights – in a claim of unfair dismissal and for a protective award in respect of an alleged failure in collective consultation relating to their redundancies.’
UK Police Law Blog, 15th August 2017
Source: ukpolicelawblog.com
‘An employment tribunal has upheld a former monitoring officer’s claim of victimisation and unfair dismissal by a borough council.’
Local Government Lawyer, 25th July 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A recent EAT ruling JP Morgan v Ktorza continues a line of decisions which limit the role of employee expectations in the determination of unfair dismissals claims further curtailing the extent to which employees can rely on public law notions or human rights principles to challenge their dismissals.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 30th June 2017
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Nicholas Siddall considers the recent decision of the EAT in Zebrowski-v-Concentric Birmingham Ltd [2017] UKEAT/0245/16/DA and analyses the guidance there to be found as regards the proper approach to a Polkey deduction.’
Littleton Chambers, 9th May 2017
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
‘A judge who was sacked for posting abusive comments on news articles about cases he had heard has admitted he was “reckless” but complained that the sanction was “wholly disproportionate and completely unfair”.’
The Guardian, 13th April 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Steep rises in fees for bringing unfair dismissal claims at employment tribunals – which have led to a 70% fall in the number of cases – are to be challenged at the UK’s highest court.’
The Guardian, 27th march 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A purportedly self-employed plumber engaged through a London-based firm was a ‘worker’, entitled to paid holiday rights and the right to bring a claim for disability discrimination, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 10th February 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A housekeeper who drove his millionaire bosses’ Porsche and had his boyfriend to stay at their home was unfairly sacked because his employers did not follow the correct procedures, a tribunal has ruled.’
Daily Telegraph, 20th December 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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