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  Ibekwe v London General Transport Services Ltd [2003] IRLR 697 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employer's liability: Extent of employer's duty to take reasonable steps to inform employee of contractual term

    Date:

    7 November 2003

    In Ibekwe v London General Transport Services Ltd, the Court of Appeal holds that an employee's claim for damages for loss, resulting from his employer's alleged failure to inform him of his option to transfer accrued pension benefits to a new pension scheme, could not succeed.

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  Iceland Frozen Foods Ltd v Jones [1982] IRLR 439 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Reasonableness: EAT reviews the test of reasonableness

    Date:

    19 October 1982

    In Iceland Frozen Foods v Jones the EAT has reviewed the decisions on the test of reasonableness as required by s.57(3) of the EP(C)A. They stress the importance of considering the range of reasonable responses and warn against the test which states that a dismissal is unfair only if no sensible or reasonable employer could have arrived at that decision, as this approach could result in a misunderstanding of the law.

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  ICTS (UK) Ltd v Tchoula [2000] IRLR 643 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • EAT gives guidance on injury to feelings

    Date:

    1 September 2000

    In ICTS (UK) Ltd v Tchoula the EAT has found that an award of £27,000 for injury to feelings, including aggravated damages, to a black man who was found to have been dismissed because he had made allegations of race discrimination was so excessive as to amount to an error of law.

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  Igen Ltd (formerly Leeds Careers Guidance) and others v Wong and other cases [2005] IRLR 258 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Burden of proof guidelines revised

    Date:

    1 April 2005

    In a hearing of three conjoined appeals (Igen Ltd (formerly Leeds Careers Guidance) and others v Wong; Chamberlin Solicitors and another v Emokpae; Brunel University v Webster, 18 February 2005), the Court of Appeal considers the guidelines established in Barton v Investec Henderson Crosthwaite Securities Ltd (EOR 118) and sets out revised guidance on the burden of proof provisions in the discrimination legislation.

  • Discrimination: Burden of proof finally reversed in direct discrimination claims

    Date:

    25 March 2005

    In Igen Ltd & ors v Wong; Chamberlin Solicitors & ors v Emokpae; Brunel University v Webster, the Court of Appeal holds that the amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and Race Relations Act 1976, in order to implement the Burden of Proof Directive (97/80/EC), require a two-stage process to determine direct discrimination.

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  Inco Alloys Ltd v Kelly EAT/47/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sickness rules: Dismissal for evening training on sick day was unfair

    Date:

    1 October 1994

    In Inco Alloys Ltd v Kelly the EAT upholds an industrial tribunal's decision that the dismissal of an employee, because he twice attended evening Territorial Army training sessions having been off work the same day because of sickness or injury, was unfair.

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  Initial Electronic Security Systems Ltd v Avdic [2005] IRLR 671 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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  Initial Services Ltd v Putterill and Another [1967] 3 All ER 145 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Initial Services Ltd v Putterill and Another

    Date:

    31 December 1967

    In Initial Services Ltd v Putterill and Another [1967] 3 All ER 145 CA, the Court of Appeal affirmed that employees should not disclose confidential information that they obtain during the course of their employment, but that there is an exception where the disclosure is in the public interest.

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  Inner London Education Authority v Lloyd [1981] IRLR 394 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Capability: Alidair gross incompetence test limited

    Date:

    22 May 1981

    The Court of Appeal's decision in Alidair Ltd v Taylor is authority for the proposition that there are circumstances in which an employee's incompetence can be so great that it is unnecessary to give him an opportunity to improve. The effect of the Court of Appeal's more recent decision in Inner London Education Authority v Lloyd, however, is to limit the application of the Alidair case. Rejecting an analogy of the case of Mr Lloyd, a probationary teacher, to that of Mr Taylor, an airline pilot, the Appeal Court points out that in Alidair the safety of a large number of people was involved.

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  Insitu Cleaning Co Ltd and another v Heads [1995] IRLR 4 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Sex discrimination: Single remark can constitute sexual harassment

    Date:

    1 January 1995

    In Insitu Cleaning Co Ltd and another v Heads the EAT rejects an employer's argument that a single act cannot amount to sexual harassment until it has been done and rejected as "unwanted conduct".

  • Sexual remark discriminatory

    Date:

    1 January 1995

    In Insitu Cleaning Co Ltd v Heads (1 September 1994) EOR59B, the EAT rules that a remark about a woman's breasts subjected her to a detriment and was unlawfully discriminatory. The EAT recommends that the employers adopt a sexual harassment procedure to prevent future incidents.

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  Institution of Professional Civil Servants and Others v Secretary of State for Defence [1987] IRLR 373 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Consultation over business transfers

    Date:

    4 August 1987

    In Institution of Professional Civil Servants and others v Secretary of State for Defence the High Court rejects a complaint by various trade unions that the Secretary of State had not Informed and consulted them about a proposed transfer of two dockyards to commercial management, as required by s.1 of the Dockyard Services Act 1986.