Cases within R

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  R v Commission for Racial Equality ex parte Westminster City Council [1985] IRLR 426 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Discrimination: Workforce pressure led to discrimination

    Date:

    10 September 1985

    The Court of Appeal in R v Commission for Racial Equality (ex parte Westminster City Council) upholds the High Court's finding that employers are guilty of discriminatory conduct if they give into workforce pressure which is itself based on discrimination.

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  R v Secretary of State for Employment ex parte Seymour-Smith and Perez [1997] IRLR 315 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Qualifying period to ECJ

    Date:

    1 May 1997

    In R v Secretary of State for Employment ex parte Seymour-Smith and Perez (13 March 1997) EOR73A, the House of Lords refers questions to the European Court of Justice relating to whether the increase in the qualifying period for bringing a complaint of unfair dismissal from one to two years indirectly discriminated against women contrary to European Community law.

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  R v Securities and Futures Authority Ltd and another ex parte Fleurose [2002] IRLR 297 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Human rights: Disciplinary proceedings did not breach trader's right to a fair trial

    Date:

    24 June 2002

    Disciplinary proceedings taken by the Securities and Futures Authority against a securities trader involved the "determination of his civil rights and obligations", but not the determination of "any criminal charge" within the meaning of article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, even though the proceedings could result in fines and a suspension, holds the Court of Appeal in R v Securities and Futures Authority Ltd and another ex parte Fleurose.

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  R v Southampton Industrial Tribunal ex parte INS News Group Ltd and Express Newspapers plc [1995] IRLR 247 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Private sexual harassment hearing not permitted

    Date:

    1 June 1995

    An industrial tribunal is not entitled to exclude members of the public (including the press) from the hearing of a sexual harassment case when the evidence to be given is of a sensitive or salacious nature, the Divisional Court has ruled in R v Southampton Industrial Tribunal ex parte INS News Group.

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  R v The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum [1994] IRLR 25 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Risk involves no actual danger

    Date:

    1 May 1993

    "Risk" is interpreted in a wider sense to convey the possibility of danger, in R v The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum. The Court of Appeal thus upholds the decision of the Crown Court, and notes that a more restrictive definition of "actual danger" would result in "substantial emasculation" of a central part of the HSW Act.

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  Rabahallah v BT Group plc [2005] IRLR 184 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    10 June 2005

    A review of recent significant cases on practice and procedure in the employment tribunals, EAT and Court of Appeal.

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  Ralph Martindale & Co Ltd v Harris EAT/0166/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Redundancy: Selection for alternative employment

    Date:

    9 May 2008

    In Ralph Martindale & Co Ltd v Harris EAT/0166/07, the EAT held that a redundancy dismissal was unfair where the process for deciding who should be offered an alternative post involved no objective criteria and no attempt to assess the candidates against a job description. It was unfair for the employer to rely mainly on a subjective assessment of whose management style would best suit the new post.

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  Rank Nemo (DMS) Ltd v Coutinho [2009] EWCA Civ 454 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Failure to pay tribunal compensation may be victimisation

    Date:

    27 July 2009

    In Rank Nemo (DMS) Ltd v Coutinho [2009] EWCA Civ 454 CA, the Court of Appeal held that an employment tribunal had erred in law in refusing to accept a victimisation claim based on the respondent's failure to pay an award of compensation.

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  Raspin v United News Shops Ltd [1999] IRLR 9 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Wrongful dismissal: Compensation for loss of chance to claim unfair dismissal

    Date:

    15 February 1999

    Damages for wrongful dismissal may in principle include damages in respect of an employee's loss of the opportunity to bring an unfair dismissal complaint, holds the EAT in Raspin v United News Shops Ltd.

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  Ratcliffe and others v North Yorkshire County Council [1995] IRLR 439 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Competitive tendering did not excuse pay-cut

    Date:

    1 August 1995

    In Ratcliffe and others v North Yorkshire County Council the House of Lords upholds a finding that women school catering assistants were entitled to receive the same rate of pay as their male comparators employed by the council on work rated as equivalent.