Cases within B

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  Bloxham v Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer [2007] ET/2205086/06 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Bloxham v Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

    Date:

    8 November 2007

    In Bloxham v Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer [2007] ET/2205086/06, an employment tribunal has held that changes to a law firm's pension scheme that discriminated on the grounds of age were justified.

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  Blundell v Governing Body of St Andrew's Roman Catholic Primary School and another [2007] IRLR 652 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Maternity leave: Right to return to work

    Date:

    18 July 2007

    In Blundell v The Governing Body of St Andrew's Catholic Primary School and another EAT/0329/06 the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that a teacher returning to work following maternity leave was not entitled to return to the same class that she had been teaching when her maternity leave began.

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  BM Price v (1) The Civil Service Commission and (2) The Society of Civil and Public Servants [1977] IRLR 291 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sex discrimination: EAT says "justifiable" means "necessary"

    Date:

    15 August 1977

    In the same way that the EAT's interpretations resuscitated the Equal Pay Act, recent decisions would now appear to be giving the Sex Discrimination Act a new lease of life. In Price v The Civil Service Commission and Steel v The Post Office, the EAT takes the same broad, commonsense approach to the indirect discrimination provisions of the Sex Discrimination Act that it has to the like work provisions of the Equal Pay Act.

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  BNP Paribas v Mezzotero [2004] IRLR 508 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Practice and procedure: "Without prejudice" discussions admissible

    Date:

    2 July 2004

    In BNP Paribas v Mezzotero the EAT holds that discussions "without prejudice" between an employer and an employee who had raised a grievance in respect of her treatment on returning from maternity leave, could be relied on by the employee in support of her sex discrimination and victimisation complaints.

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  Bolch v Chipman [2003] All ER (D) 122 (Nov) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure: part 1

    Date:

    5 March 2004

    A review of recent significant cases on practice and procedure in the employment tribunals and the EAT.

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  Bolton School v Evans [2006] IRLR 500 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Whistleblowing update

    Date:

    18 August 2006

    Legislation protecting whistleblowers was introduced seven years ago. This article reviews the legislation and considers some of the substantial body of case law arising out of it. It also looks at the components of an effective whistleblowing policy.

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  Bolton School v Evans [2007] IRLR 140 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Bolton School v Evans

    Date:

    1 December 2006

    In Bolton School v Evans [2007] IRLR 140 CA, the Court of Appeal has held that protection against a detriment for making a protected disclosure does not extend to dismissal for conduct that is designed to demonstrate that the belief in the wrongdoing is reasonable.

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  Bone v Fabcon Projects Ltd [2006] IRLR 908 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure round-up

    Date:

    16 February 2007

    A review of recent significant cases on practice and procedure in the EAT and the Court of Appeal.

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  Booth and others v United States of America [1999] IRLR 16 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Continuity of employment: Continuity not preserved during two-week breaks between contracts

    Date:

    15 February 1999

    Employees employed by the same employer for total periods of between four and six years under a succession of temporary contracts of less than two years' duration, were not regarded as continuing in employment by custom or arrangement during regular two-week breaks between those contracts, holds the EAT in Booth and others v United States of America.

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  Booth v Highland Venison Marketing Ltd [1994] IT/3904/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Withdrawal of offer unlawful

    Date:

    1 June 1994

    An employer who withdrew an offer of employment as a butcher to a woman when he learned that she was pregnant unlawfully discriminated, an Inverness industrial tribunal (Chair: F C C Carmichael) in Booth v Highland Venison Marketing Ltd finds.