Latest EAT Judgments- Trafford Borough Council v S Cooksey & Ors (GMB Claimants) & Ors [2012] UKEAT 0255_11_1805 (18 May 2012)
- Market One Europe LLP v Rojas (Unfair Dismissal : Reason for dismissal including substantial other) [2012] UKEAT 0307_11_1405 (14 May 2012)
- Konczak v BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd (Practice and Procedure : Compromise) [2012] UKEAT 0498_11_0305 (3 May 2012)
- Hudson v The Department for Work and Pensions [2012] UKEAT 0397_11_0305 (3 May 2012)
- Sunderland City Council v Brennan & Ors (Practice and Procedure : Contribution) [2011] UKEAT 0288_11_0205 (2 May 2012)
- Brennan & Ors v Sunderland City Council & Ors (Practice and Procedure : Contribution) [2011] UKEAT 0286_11_0205 (2 May 2012)
- Cartwright v Kings College London [2012] UKEAT 0565_11_3004 (30 April 2012)
- Clyde & Co Llp v Winkelhof [2012] UKEAT 0568_11_2604 (26 April 2012)
- Quashie v Stringfellows Restaurants Ltd (Jurisdictional Points : Worker, employee or neither) [2012] UKEAT 0289_11_2604 (26 April 2012 )
- Rahman v Commissioner Of Police Of The Metropolis & Anor (Race Discrimination : Direct) [2012] UKEAT 0076_09_2504 (25 April 2012)
Author Archives: Usefully Employed
Express your personality
…if you want your legal personality to be an express term. Employers should note the cautionary tale of Mr & Mrs McVeigh, who appealed to the EAT on a tribunal’s determination that they personally were the employers of their dismissed … Continue reading
Saviour of Planet Earth
Those of you who enjoyed my post 18 months ago on celebrity egotist, hypocrite and pregnant-chef sacker Trudie Styler might have been wondering what she’s been up to since. Don’t worry! The wickedly ascerbic Marina Hyde of the Guardian’s Lost … Continue reading
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More discussion on the future of legal services
Legal Action Group magazine has an interesting article on Legal Disciplinary Partnerships in which it derides the Law Gazette for playing one-upmanship with the Bar on their relative speed of reform to meet the changing world of legal service provision, … Continue reading
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Supreme Court opens its doors to journalists
The new Supreme Court, set to open for business in October, has been showing journalists round the refurbished Middlesex Guildhall. The BBC has lots of photographs, well seven anyway, whilst the Times reckons the building lacks the ‘wow’ factor. Personally, … Continue reading
Sex discrimination in the news
The news is full of a possible £12 million pounds payment to bullied city lawyer Gillian Switalski. From the Guardian report: Switalski claims she was forced out of her £140,000-a-year job in September 2007 following 18 months of bullying and … Continue reading
Employee blacklist owner convicted and fined
Back in March I wrote about the register of ‘undesirables’ in the building industry illegally maintained by Ian Kerr of the Consulting Association, and Jobsworth gave an update in May about the National Staff Dismissal Register. Ian Kerr has now … Continue reading
And yet another social networking D’oh! moment
This Web 2.0 piece of workplace suicide has been doing the rounds, I found it at the Employee Factor. 1. Man is offered a job with Cisco ponders whether to take it… 2. And by doing so potentially ruins his … Continue reading
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Abercrombie & Fitch disability row
The case of Riam Dean, an attractive 22 year old who claims that top fashion store Abercrombie & Fitch relegated her to the stock room due to her prosthetic arm, has received much news coverage. The Guardian reports that: Dean … Continue reading
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Will the BNP hire BME employees?
Whether or not the Race Relations Act 1976 applies to membership of political parties is uncertain, hence the British National Party’s policy of refusing entry admit non-white members continues unchallenged for the moment. The Guardian reports that this may be … Continue reading
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Fit notes – what can you do when you’re off on the sick?
Back in my consultancy days I had many conversations with employers, convinced an absent employee was swinging the lead, haloo with delight when they caught said employee driving past the office / going to Tesco’s / whatever. There’s a common … Continue reading
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