Cases within H

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  Harrow London Borough v Cunningham [1996] IRLR 256 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Misconduct: Aggravating factors justified disparity of treatment

    Date:

    15 June 1996

    An employee was fairly dismissed for misconduct even though another employee who was guilty of the same conduct was treated differently and given a final written warning, holds the EAT in London Borough of Harrow v Cunningham.

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  Hart v English Heritage EAT/0055/06 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    4 August 2006

    IRS Employment Review looks at decisions on procedural points that have arisen in the EAT and Court of Appeal in the time since its last procedural round-up in December 2005.

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  Hartlepool Borough Council v Llewellyn and other appeals [2009] IRLR 796 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: A man may pursue a "piggy-back" equal pay claim by comparing himself with a woman who succeeded in an equal pay claim with a higher-paid male comparator

    Date:

    29 September 2009

    In Hartlepool Borough Council v Llewellyn and other appeals [2009] IRLR 796 EAT, the EAT confirmed that male employees may institute contingent claims relying on female comparators who have instituted equal pay claims citing other more highly paid male colleagues. The male employees may be awarded arrears of pay for the same period as their comparators.

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  Hartman v South Essex Mental Health and Community Care NHS Trust [2005] IRLR 293 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employers' liability: Hatton guidance must be applied carefully

    Date:

    25 March 2005

    In Hartman v South Essex Mental Health and Community Care NHS Trust and other appeals, the Court of Appeal holds that, for a stress at work case to succeed, it must be shown that the injury was not too remote.

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  Harvest Press Ltd v McCaffrey [1999] IRLR 778 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Harvest Press Ltd v McCaffrey

    Date:

    1 December 1999

    In Harvest Press Ltd v McCaffrey [1999] IRLR 778 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that if an employee is dismissed after walking out of work because of bullying or harassment by a colleague, he or she may be protected by the health and safety provisions of the Employment Rights Act 1996 and therefore regarded as automatically unfairly dismissed.

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  Hawkins v Atex Group Ltd and others [2012] IRLR 807 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  The EAT considered and robustly rejected the reasoning in Dunn v Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management, another case on marriage discrimination that was decided shortly before this case, and highlighted the gap in Dunn of consideration of previous authority on this issue.

  • Marriage discrimination: Dismissal because employee was in close personal relationship, which happened to be marriage, was not discrimination

    Date:

    2 June 2012

    In Hawkins v Atex Group Ltd and others EAT/0302/11, the EAT held that the dismissal of an employee because she was in a close personal relationship with a particular person, which happened to take the form of marriage, did not amount to unlawful marriage discrimination.

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  Hawley v Luminar Leisure Ltd and others [2006] IRLR 817 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Vicarious liability: Nightclub alone responsible for doorman's assault

    Date:

    2 June 2006

    In Hawley v Luminar Leisure and others [2006] EWCA Civ 18 CA, the Court of Appeal holds that responsibility for controlling a worker passed to his "temporary deemed employer", and it was unsuccessful in its attempt to persuade the court to make a finding of dual vicarious liability.

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  Hay v George Hanson (Building Contractors) Ltd [1996] IRLR 427 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Employee's objection to transfer meant no dismissal

    Date:

    15 June 1996

    An industrial tribunal was entitled to find that an employee objected to transferring to a new employer and informed his employer of that objection, holds the EAT in Hay v George Hanson (Building Contractors) Ltd.

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  Hayward v Cammell Laird Shipbuilders Ltd [1988] IRLR 257 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Comparison of overall remuneration rejected

    Date:

    1 June 1988

    In Hayward v Cammell Laird Shipbuilders Limited, the House of Lords rules that a successful equal pay claimant is entitled to have each distinct term in her contract of employment modified so that it is no less favourable than the corresponding term In her comparator's contract.

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  Health and Safety Executive v Thames Trains Ltd [2003] EWCA Civ 720 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Health and Safety Executive v Thames Trains Ltd

    Date:

    31 December 2003

    In Health and Safety Executive v Thames Trains Ltd [2003] EWCA Civ 720 CA, it was held that there may be circumstances in which the Health and Safety Executive would owe a common law duty of care to the victims of an accident.