Cases within B

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  Bossa v Nordstress Ltd and another [1998] IRLR 284 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Provision of Race Relations Act incompatible with EC law

    Date:

    15 April 1998

    In Bossa v Nordstress Ltd and another, the EAT holds that an industrial tribunal has jurisdiction to determine an Italian national's complaint that, because of his nationality, he was denied an interview in this country for a job based in Italy.

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  Boulton & Paul Ltd v Arnold [1994] IRLR 532 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal remedies: EAT addresses limits of "Polkey" reductions

    Date:

    1 January 1995

    In a number of recent cases, the EAT has considered the approach industrial tribunals should take when considering reducing unfair dismissal compensation on the grounds that the unfairness was due only to "procedural" failures.

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  Bournemouth University Higher Education Corporation v Buckland EAT/0492/08 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Range of reasonable responses test of no application in establishing constructive dismissal

    Date:

    26 August 2009

    In Bournemouth University Higher Education Corporation v Buckland EAT/0492/08, the EAT held that the well-established contractual test for determining whether or not constructive dismissal has occurred should not be embellished by the introduction of the range of reasonable responses test, a concept that is properly confined to the law of unfair dismissal. In doing so, it declined to follow the EAT decisions in Abbey National plc v Fairbrother and Claridge v Daler Rowney Ltd.

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  Bouzourou v The Ottoman Bank [1930] AC 271 JCPC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Bouzourou v The Ottoman Bank

    Date:

    31 December 1930

    In Bouzourou v The Ottoman Bank [1930] AC 271 JCPC, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held that an employee can refuse to transfer to a geographical area where the employee would be at personal risk, but cannot refuse to go in the absence of personal danger.

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  Bowater v Northwest London Hospitals NHS Trust [2011] IRLR 331 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Tribunal entitled to find dismissal for lewd comment unfair

    Date:

    11 July 2011

    In Bowater v Northwest London Hospitals NHS Trust [2011] IRLR 331 CA, the Court of Appeal held that an employment tribunal was entitled to find that the dismissal of a nurse for making a lewd comment in the course of restraining an epileptic patient was outside the range of reasonable responses. It was intended as a humorous remark, and there was no evidence that the patient or any member of the public heard it.

  • Nurse unfairly dismissed for single lewd remark in stressful situation

    Date:

    7 February 2011

    The Court of Appeal has reinstated an employment tribunal decision that a nurse with a clean record was unfairly dismissed when she made a single lewd remark while restraining a patient having an epileptic fit. 

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  Boyle and others v Equal Opportunities Commission [1998] IRLR 717 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Maternity rights: Return or repayment provision compatible with EC law

    Date:

    1 January 1999

    A contractual term which requires a woman to undertake to return to work on the expiry of her maternity leave or otherwise to repay any amounts paid to her by her employer over and above statutory maternity pay during that period, does not contravene the equal pay principle contained in Article 119 of the Treaty of Rome and the Equal Pay Directive, rules the European Court of Justice in Boyle and others v Equal Opportunities Commission.

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  BP plc v Elstone and another [2010] IRLR 558 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Whistleblowing: Whistleblower protected where disclosure made in previous employment

    Date:

    14 June 2010

    In BP plc v Elstone and another EAT/0141/09, the EAT held that a worker was entitled to bring a complaint under the whistleblowing provisions of the Employment Rights Act 1996 in respect of a detriment that he allegedly suffered in his current employment because of a protected disclosure that he had made while in previous employment.

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  Bramhall and others v William Cook (Sheffield) Ltd [2004] All ER (D) 162 (Apr) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    26 November 2004

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

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  Brannen v Frigoscandia (Grimsby) Ltd and Chisnall [1994] IT/34229/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Harassment "in the course of employment"

    Date:

    1 December 1994

    Racial and sexual harassment can pose questions of whether the employer should be held legally liable, as Harding v Dale Joinery Ltd Brannen v Frigoscandia (Grimsby) Ltd and Chisnall Cumberbatch v Hickson and Department of Social Security illustrate.

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  Brash-Hall v Getty Images Limited [2006] EWCA Civ 531 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sex discrimination: No compensation for loss of severance package

    Date:

    6 October 2006

    In Brash-Hall v Getty Images Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 531 CA, the Court of Appeal holds that an employee dismissed in circumstances that amounted to sex discrimination, but who would have subsequently been dismissed for redundancy in any event, was not entitled to recover compensation reflecting an enhanced redundancy package.