Cases within R

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  Regent Security Services Ltd v Power [2008] IRLR 66 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • TUPE case law update

    Date:

    27 February 2008

    This article looks at some of the important judgments in the area of the transfer of undertakings over the past year.

  • Transfer of undertakings: Employee could enforce beneficial variation connected with TUPE transfer

    Date:

    29 January 2008

    In Regent Security Services Ltd v Power [2007] EWCA Civ 1188 CA, the Court of Appeal held that an employee transferred under the 1981 TUPE Regulations could choose to enforce new, more beneficial terms agreed with the transferee, even where the variation was connected with the transfer.

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  Retarded Children's Aid Society Ltd v Day [1978] IRLR 128 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: When an employee may not be entitled to a second chance

    Date:

    22 October 1977

    In Taylor v Alidair Ltd, the Appeal Court upholds a finding by the Employment Appeal Tribunal that it was not unfair to dismiss a pilot on the basis of a single error of judgement. And in Retarded Children's Aid Society Ltd v Day, it holds that the Code of Practice notwithstanding, in some cases it may be reasonable to dismiss without giving the employee a second chance, "especially with a man who is determined to go on in his own way".

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  Rhys-Harper v Relaxion Group plc and other appeals [2003] IRLR 484 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Discrimination: Employers liable for post-termination discrimination

    Date:

    15 August 2003

    In Relaxion Group plc v Rhys-Harper and related cases the House of Lords interprets anti-discrimination legislation to mean that employees should be protected against certain acts of post-termination discrimination by their employer.

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  Richardson and another v Applied Imaging International Ltd EAT/311/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Redundancy: Relocation clause defeats redundancy claim

    Date:

    1 February 1995

    An employee who agreed to relocate but later decided not to move was not dismissed by reason of redundancy, but rather because of his intention not to comply with the relocation clause in his contract, holds the EAT in Richardson and another v Applied Imaging International Ltd.

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  Richardson v Scott & Co [2005] All ER (D) 87 (Jun) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Perceived commercial interest key to 'SOSR'

    Date:

    16 September 2005

    In Scott & Co v Richardson, the EAT holds that the employment tribunal failed to apply the correct tests to discover whether the employer had some other substantial reason for dismissing the employee and substituted its own view of the evidence, leading to the conclusion that the employer had no other substantial reason for dismissal.

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  Richardson v U Mole Ltd [2005] IRLR 668 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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  Richmond Adult Community College v McDougall [2008] IRLR 227 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Meaning of 'likely to recur'

    Date:

    10 March 2008

    In Richmond Adult Community College v McDougall [2008] IRLR 227, the Court of Appeal held that, in considering whether or not a long-term adverse effect was likely to recur, only events leading up to the alleged act of discrimination should be taken into account.

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  Richmond Pharmacology Ltd v Dhaliwal [2009] IRLR 336 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: "Married off in India" remark constituted harassment

    Date:

    11 May 2009

    In Richmond Pharmacology Ltd v Dhaliwal [2009] IRLR 336 EAT, the EAT held that the employment tribunal was entitled to find that it was reasonable for a female employee of Indian ethnic origin to be offended by what she perceived to be a stereotypical reference to the possibility of her being "married off in India". This violated her dignity and amounted to unlawful racial harassment.

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  Ridout v TC Group [1998] IRLR 628 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: No discrimination against epileptic job applicant

    Date:

    1 November 1998

    An employer could not reasonably have been expected to know, without being told by a job applicant suffering from photosensitive epilepsy, that the fluorescent lighting in the room in which she was interviewed might disadvantage her, holds the EAT in Ridout v T C Group.

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  Ridsdill and others v D Smith & Nephew Medical and others EAT/0704/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure round-up

    Date:

    16 February 2007

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