Cases within L

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  Ladbroke Racing Ltd v Arnott and others [1979] IRLR 192 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Ladbroke Racing Ltd v Arnott and others

    Date:

    1 May 1979

    In Ladbroke Racing Ltd v Arnott and others [1979] IRLR 192 EAT, the EAT held that the Industrial Tribunal was entitled to find that the respondent betting shop employees had been unfairly dismissed on grounds of placing bets on behalf of outside persons or condoning such bets, notwithstanding that the appellants' disciplinary rules specified that such conduct would result in immediate dismissal.

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  Ladele v London Borough of Islington [2009] EWCA Civ 1357 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Religious discrimination: Christian registrar disciplined for refusing to carry out civil partnership duties was not discriminated against unlawfully

    Date:

    24 February 2010

    In Ladele v London Borough of Islington [2009] EWCA Civ 1357 CA, the Court of Appeal held that a registrar with strong Christian beliefs about marriage who was threatened with dismissal for refusing to carry out civil partnership work did not suffer unlawful religious discrimination.

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  Laher v London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham [1994] EAT/215/91 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Bias shown by tribunal chair

    Date:

    1 September 1994

    In Laher v London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham the EAT has set aside the decision of an industrial tribunal dismissing a race discrimination complaint on grounds that there was bias shown by the tribunal chair against the applicant.

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  Laing O'Rouke Group Services Ltd and others v Woolf and another [2005] All ER (D) 126 (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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  Lancaster University v University and College Union [2011] IRLR 4 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Collective redundancy consultation: University failed to consult on expiry of fixed-term contracts

    Date:

    1 March 2011

    In Lancaster University v University and College Union [2011] IRLR 4 EAT, the EAT held that the university failed to comply with its statutory obligations to consult collectively on the expiry of fixed-term contracts. The tribunal was also entitled to make a protective award of 60 days' pay.

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  Lancaster v TBWA Manchester EAT/0460/10 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability: use of purely objective criteria in redundancy selection not a reasonable adjustment in creative environment

    Date:

    29 June 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that it was not a reasonable adjustment for the subjective redundancy selection criteria by which a disabled employee who was at risk of redundancy was judged to be removed from the process. 

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  Land Brandenburg v Sass [2005] IRLR 147 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: case law update

    Date:

    3 February 2006

    We review recent significant equal pay cases and their implications. Developments of note include the application of the "single source" test to comparators within an employment unit, and a reference to the ECJ on whether use of length of service as a pay system criterion requires specific objective justification.

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  Land Securities Trillium Ltd v Thornley [2005] IRLR 765 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Constructive dismissal: Job description not sole determinant of duties

    Date:

    16 December 2005

    In Land Securities Trilium Ltd v Thornley, the EAT holds that, when deciding whether there has been a change in job duties, the tribunal may look not only at how the duties were described in the employee's original job description, but also at the actual work she had been given.

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  Landsorganisationen I Danmark v NY Molle Kro [1989] IRLR 37 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Landsorganisationen I Danmark v NY Molle Kro

    Date:

    1 January 1989

    In Landsorganisationen i Danmark v NY Molle Kro [1989] IRLR 37 ECJ, the European Court of Justice held that the Acquired Rights Directive (EEC Directive 77/187) is applicable where, following a legal transfer or merger, there is a change in the legal or natural person who is responsible for carrying on the business and who by virtue of that fact incurs the obligations of an employer vis-a-vis employees of the undertaking, regardless of whether or not ownership of the undertaking is transferred.

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  Lane v Shire Roofing Company (Oxford) Ltd [1995] IRLR 493 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Employment status in the safety context

    Date:

    1 October 1995

    In Lane v The Shire Roofing Co (Oxford) Ltd, the Court of Appeal holds that a roofer hired by a company for an individual roofing job was an employee, and so the company was liable to pay damages for the personal injury he suffered when he fell off his ladder whilst carrying out that work.