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  John Brown Engineering Ltd v Brown and others [1997] IRLR 90 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Redundancy: "Sham" appeal process rendered selection unfair

    Date:

    15 March 1997

    An assessment system under which employees were selected for redundancy without individual consultation on the basis of undisclosed marks awarded by their employer gave employees no meaningful opportunity to challenge the decisions made, holds the EAT in John Brown Engineering Ltd v Brown and others.

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  John Liddington Ltd v Blackett EAT/504/92 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Reasonableness: Dismissal for loss of licence was fair

    Date:

    1 October 1994

    An employee was fairly dismissed when he lost his driving licence, holds the EAT in John Liddington Ltd v Blackett, given that his job involved substantial travelling and the employer had concluded, after careful consideration of alternative arrangements, that the job could not be done properly without a car.

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  Johnson v (1) Armitage (2) Marsden (3) HM Prison Service [1995] IT/18510/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • £28,500 award in race case

    Date:

    1 September 1995

    A black prison officer who was subjected to "a campaign of appalling treatment" over a period of almost two years is awarded compensation of £28,500, including a record £21,000 for injury to feelings, by a London South industrial tribunal (Chair: E R Donnelly) in Johnson v (1) Armitage (2) Marsden (3) HM Prison Service.

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  Johnson v Unisys Ltd [2001] IRLR 279 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Damages: No common law remedy for financial loss flowing from manner of dismissal

    Date:

    1 May 2001

    There is no common law contractual remedy for financial or other loss allegedly flowing from the manner or circumstances of an employee's dismissal, holds the House of Lords in Johnson v Unisys Ltd.

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  Johnstone v Bloomsbury Health Authority [1991] IRLR 118 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Doctors' hours under attack

    Date:

    8 March 1991

    An employer's right to require overtime from an employee who is under a contractual obligation to be "on call" for a specified number of hours in excess of his basic working week, is subject to the employer's implied duty to take reasonable care not to injure its employee's health, holds the Court of Appeal in Johnstone v Bloomsbury Health Authority.

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  Jones v Associated Tunnelling Co Ltd [1981] IRLR 477 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Jones v Associated Tunnelling Co Ltd

    Date:

    1 November 1981

    In Jones v Associated Tunnelling Co Ltd [1981] IRLR 477 EAT, the EAT held that it would be unreasonable for an employee to be deemed by his or her silence to have accepted a change to his or her working conditions when the change had no immediate effect.

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  Jones v DAS Legal Expenses Insurance Co Ltd and others [2004] IRLR 218 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure: part 2

    Date:

    16 April 2004

    The second of our two-part feature on noteworthy decisions in practice and procedure at the employment tribunals and EAT looks at bias, the right to a fair hearing and a range of other issues.

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  Jones v F Sirl & Son (Furnishers) Ltd [1997] IRLR 493 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Jones v F Sirl & Son (Furnishers) Ltd

    Date:

    1 September 1997

    In Jones v F Sirl & Son (Furnishers) Ltd [1997] IRLR 493 EAT, the EAT held that in deciding whether an employee left employment in consequence of a fundamental breach of contract by the employer, the industrial tribunal must determine whether the repudiatory breach was "the effective cause" of the resignation. It does not have to be the sole cause.

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  Jones v Greystone Consulting Ltd [2010] ET/3102884/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Resignation or dismissal: employment tribunal decisions

    Date:

    24 August 2011

    This article summarises the main issues and outcomes in five employment tribunal cases where the key issue was whether the employee resigned or was dismissed.

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  Jones v Kaney [2011] UKSC 13 SC (1 report relating to this case)

  The Supreme Court, the highest court in the UK, overturned the long-standing rule that expert witnesses are immune from liability for damages to parties that have engaged them and to which they owe a duty of care. However, the traditional protection for other non-expert witnesses (such as eyewitnesses) has not been affected by the Supreme Court decision.

  • Supreme Court abolishes expert witnesses' immunity from liability over evidence

    Date:

    5 April 2011

    The Supreme Court has overturned the long-standing rule that expert witnesses are immune from liability for damages to parties that have engaged them and to which they owe a duty of care, in a road-traffic accident decision that could have an impact on employment cases.