Cases within C

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  Cantor Fitzgerald International v Bird [2002] IRLR 867 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Keeping secrets and not competing

    Date:

    18 November 2005

    A round-up of developments in the implied duty of confidentiality and express contractual terms on confidential information and restraints on competition.

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  Capita Hartshead Ltd v Byard [2012] IRLR 814 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employer's decision to restrict redundancy selection to one made dismissal unfair

    Date:

    28 February 2012

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the employer's decision to restrict a redundancy selection to one employee when there were other employees doing the same job who could have been put in a redundancy selection pool made her dismissal unfair. 

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  Capita Health Solutions Ltd v McLean and another [2008] IRLR 595 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • TUPE: Objection to transfer not valid

    Date:

    16 September 2008

    In Capita Health Solutions v McLean and another [2008] IRLR 595, the EAT held that an employee's objection to becoming employed by the transferee did not have the effect of preventing the transfer of her contract of employment, as she had undertaken work for the transferee after the transfer date.

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  Capper Pass Ltd v JB Lawton [1976] IRLR 366 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: "Trivial differences" should be disregarded in determining whether there is like work

    Date:

    24 November 1976

    In the Capper Pass v Lawton, the EAT hold that in determining whether a woman and a man are employed on broadly similar work, Industrial Tribunals should disregard "trivial differences or differences not likely in the real world to be reflected in terms and conditions of employment". And in Dugdale and others v Kraft Foods Ltd, the EAT hold that the time that the work is performed should also be disregarded when considering whether jobs constitute like work within the s.1(4) definition.

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  Carl v University of Sheffield [2009] IRLR 616 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Part-time workers: Less favourable treatment does not have to be solely on grounds of part-time status

    Date:

    27 July 2009

    In Carl v University of Sheffield [2009] IRLR 616 EAT, the EAT held that a part-time worker complaining of less favourable treatment does not have to show that the treatment was solely on the ground of his or her part-time status. The EAT also held that the comparison must be with an actual, not a hypothetical, comparator.

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  Carmichael and another v National Power plc [2000] IRLR 43 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employment status: Tour guides engaged on "casual as required basis" were not employees

    Date:

    1 January 2000

    In Carmichael and another v National Power plc, the House of Lords holds that two women who accepted a company's written offer of employment as tour guides "on a casual as required basis", and then worked as guides on invitation when they were available and chose to work, were not employees under contracts of employment.

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  Carmichael v Marks & Spencer plc S.C.C.R. 781 High Court of Justiciary (Appeal) (1 report relating to this case)

  • Carmichael v Marks & Spencer plc

    Date:

    31 August 2000

    In Carmichael v Marks & Spencer plc S.C.C.R. 781 High Court of Justiciary (Appeal), a criminal prosecution under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992, regulation 3, the High Court held that it would be open to the prosecution to prove either that no risk assessment whatever had been made or that an assessment had been made that was not suitable and sufficient. The defendants were entitled to be told the essential features of the prosecution case and in particular upon what basis the prosecution was contending that there had been a contravention of regulation 3.

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  Caspersz v Ministry of Defence EAT/0599/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sex discrimination: Successful defence to claims of sexual harassment

    Date:

    4 August 2006

    In Caspersz v Ministry of Defence EAT/0599/05, the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that an employer that introduced and implemented an effective dignity at work policy successfully defended sexual harassment claims even where the harasser was the manager with responsibility for implementing the policy.

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  Cassidy v Ministry of Health [1951] 1 All ER 574 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Cassidy v Ministry of Health

    Date:

    31 December 1951

    In Cassidy v Ministry of Health [1951] 1 All ER 574 CA, the Court of Appeal held that where evidence showed a prima facie case of negligence on the part of the persons in whose care the plaintiff was, the defendants were liable to the plaintiff regardless of which individual was negligent.

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  Catamaran Cruisers Ltd v Williams and others [1994] IRLR 386 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Reorganisation: Tribunal takes wrong approach on business reorganisation

    Date:

    1 July 1994

    An industrial tribunal's decision that an employee could reasonably refuse a proposed detrimental variation in contractual terms because it was not based on sound business reasons vital for the company's survival was wrong, holds the EAT in Catamaran Cruisers Ltd v Williams and others.