Latest EAT Judgments- Simpson v Endsleigh Insurance Services Ltd & Ors [2010] UKEAT 0544_09_2708 (27 August 2010)
- JP Morgan Europe Ltd v. Chweidan [2010] UKEAT 0286_09_2608 (26 August 2010)
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce v. A Beck [2010] UKEAT 0141_10_2408 (24 August 2010)
- West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust v. Evans [2010] UKEAT 0398_09_1908 (19 August 2010)
- Community Dental Centres Ltd v. Sultan- Darmon [2010] UKEAT 0532_09_1208 (12 August 2010)
- St Andrews Catholic Primary School & Ors v Blundell [2010] UKEAT 0330_09_0608 (6 August 2010)
- Brownbill & Ors v St Helens & Knowsley Hospital NHS Trust [2010] UKEAT 0074_10_0608 (6 August 2010)
- Wilson Devonald Ltd v Suckling [2010] UKEAT 0131_10_0308 (3 August 2010)
- Carclo Technical Plastics Ltd v. Jeyanthikumar [2010] UKEAT 0129_10_0308 (3 August 2010)
- Parfums Givenchy Ltd v Finch [2010] UKEAT 0517_09_3007 (30 July 2010)
Author Archives: Usefully Employed
Contingency fees in the ET to be abolished?
No-one’s daring to say so, but a press release by the Ministry of Justice is reviewing the whole caboodle. Some solicitors are getting worried. A contingency fee is where the solicitor’s fee is a percentage of what he recovers for the client. In my … Continue reading
Announcement on equal pay and positive discrimination
The new Equality Bill will, in addition to consolidating the diverse statutes that currently cover the area, introduce: A prohibition on age discrimination in providing goods and services; A statutory basis for positive discrimination on (apparently) gender and race; Staged … Continue reading
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Comparators in Disability Discrimination
Nearlylegal links to (of course) a housing case, Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm, UKHL, but there is some interesting comment on choice of comparator in discrimination. This is relevant to employment discrimination claims, as well … Continue reading
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Garden Leave without contractual provision
Can an employer enforce garden leave absent a specific power in the contract of employment? Lawyers are always cautious on advising on enforcement of garden leave, as if in excluding the employee from work the employer puts itself in breach … Continue reading
EAT Judgments
I’m delighted that I’ve at last spent 30 seconds stealing being inspired by Nick Holmes‘ use of a Yahoo Pipe to provide a good rss feed from bailii. The fruits of my labours are available on the side bar, or … Continue reading
Always keepin’ a man down
I subscribe to the feed at http://wordpress.com/tag/employment/, which I’d only recommend if you’re adept at speed-reading: the amount of content with that tag is too high, and 95% of posts are of little or no interest to the British employment … Continue reading
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Tesco and Trade Unions
This is a very interesting Comment is Free piece from an American trade union leader. It would seem that as Tesco expands into America, it has adopted a very American view of trade unions. Collective bargaining is, if anything, more … Continue reading
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Tweet
Twitter is the social networking phenomenon de jour. I’m on there, see: http://twitter.com/u_employed Now I’ve joined and mentioned it to people, I see with a groan that it puts up stats as to how many ‘followers’ I have. Cue months … Continue reading
Race Discrimination – Burden of Proof
An odd situation arises from the finding in Oyarce v Cheshire County Council [2008] EWCA Civ 434. In most discrimination cases, all the Claimant need do to prove facts that would, in the absence of an adequate explanation, support his … Continue reading
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Strike out
Croke v Leeds City Council [2008] UKEAT 0512_07_2905 is a good example of a Tribunal’s decision to strike out (without hearing evidence) a discrimination case which had no reasonable prospect of success being upheld. A strike out is a draconian … Continue reading