Cases within C

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  Coors Brewers Ltd v Adcock and others [2007] IRLR 440 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Coors Brewers Ltd v Adcock

    Date:

    26 January 2007

    In Coors Brewers Ltd v Adcock [2007] EWCA Civ 19 CA, the Court of Appeal has held that employment tribunals do not have jurisdiction to hear claims for unlawful deductions from wages where a detailed investigation to identify the level of underpayment is required.

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  Coote v Granada Hospitality Ltd [1998] IRLR 656 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sex discrimination: Ex-employees must have legal remedy against victimisation

    Date:

    15 October 1998

    The EC Equal Treatment Directive requires member states to provide judicial protection for those whose former employers react to their bringing claims of sex discrimination against them during their employment by refusing their requests for a reference, rules the European Court of Justice in Coote v Granada Hospitality Ltd.

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  Copple and others v Littlewoods Plc and others [2012] IRLR 121 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • No remedy for part-time female workers who chose not to join pension scheme previously closed to them

    Date:

    16 November 2011

    The Court of Appeal has held that there could be no remedy for part-time female workers who were prevented from joining an occupational pension scheme during particular periods because they would not have chosen to join the pension scheme even if they had been eligible to do so. 

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  Copus v Pendragon plc (trading as CD Bramall Bradford) [2005] All ER (D) 42 (Aug) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    30 December 2005

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

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  Cordell v Foreign and Commonwealth Office EAT/0016/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: prohibitive cost of adjustments to relocate deaf diplomat

    Date:

    11 October 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office did not discriminate against a deaf diplomat when it withdrew an offer of an assignment in Kazakhstan after an assessment showed that the cost of providing lipspeakers would have been prohibitive. 

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  Corner v Buckinghamshire County Council [1978] IRLR 320 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Time off for public duties: Tribunals have no power to impose conditions on the parties

    Date:

    12 July 1978

    In Corner v Buckinghamshire County Council, a time off for public duties case, the EAT holds the Industrial Tribunal can do no more than declare that the employer had failed to allow the employee to take reasonable time off and, if appropriate, make an award of compensation.

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  Cornwall County Council v Prater [2006] IRLR 362 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employment status: Teacher who worked on succession of short-term assignments was employee

    Date:

    2 June 2006

    In Cornwall County Council v Prater [2006] EWCA Civ 102 CA, the Court of Appeal holds that a lack of mutuality of obligation during "gaps" between successive teaching assignments over a period of 10 years did not, of itself, prevent each separate assignment from constituting an individual contract of employment.

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  Corps Of Commissionaires Management Ltd v Hughes [2009] IRLR 122 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Working time: Rest breaks and compensatory rest

    Date:

    22 November 2008

    In The Corps of Commissionaires Management Ltd v Hughes EAT/0196/08, the EAT held that the entitlement under the Working Time Regulations 1998 to a 20-minute rest break where the working day exceeds six hours is an entitlement to a single rest break and not a rest break for every six hours worked. Where an exception means that the right to a rest break does not apply, the employer must provide compensatory rest, which should be granted at a time when the worker would otherwise be working.

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  Corr (administratix of the estate of Thomas Corr (deceased)) v IBC Vehicles Ltd [2008] UKHL 13 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Liability for damages: Employer liable for suicide of employee who suffered workplace injury

    Date:

    11 June 2008

    In Corr (administratix of the estate of Thomas Corr (deceased)) v IBC Vehicles Ltd [2008] UKHL 13, the House of Lords held that the employer of a man who was injured at work and, as a consequence, suffered severe depression that led to suicide, was liable under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 for loss attributable to his suicide.

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  Cortest Ltd v O'Toole EAT/0470/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Time off for dependants: No right to time off for long-term care of dependants

    Date:

    28 July 2008

    In Cortest Ltd v O'Toole EAT/0470/07, the EAT held that the right to time off for dependants does not extend to one month's leave to care for a child.