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  Smith v Wessex Water [1993] IT/12645/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Failure to warn suggests discrimination

    Date:

    1 June 1994

    In Smith v Wessex Water a Bristol industrial tribunal (Chair: C G Toomer) draws an inference of racial discrimination from a failure to warn an African-British temporary employee that he was in danger of dismissal due to poor performance.

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  Société Genérale, London Branch v Geys [2011] IRLR 482 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  This case went to the Supreme Court, which delivered the final ruling in Société Générale, London Branch v Geys [2013] IRLR 122 SC.

  • Transfer of pay in lieu of notice terminated contract of employment

    Date:

    15 April 2011

    The Court of Appeal has held that an employee's contract of employment was terminated by the transfer of pay in lieu of notice into his bank account, even though he did not know at the time that this had happened. 

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  Sodexho Ltd v Gibbons [2005] IRLR 836 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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  Software 2000 Ltd v Andrews and others [2007] IRLR 568 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Assessment of compensation

    Date:

    27 June 2007

    In Software 2000 Ltd v Andrews and others EAT/0533/06 the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that where a procedurally unfair dismissal has not been rendered fair by the operation of s.98A(2) of the Employment Rights Act 1996, the tribunal must nevertheless consider if there is evidence to suggest that a fair procedure might have led to dismissal, thereby justifying a percentage reduction in compensation under Polkey.

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  Solectron Scotland Ltd v Roper and others [2004] IRLR 4 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Solectron Scotland Ltd v Roper and others

    Date:

    1 January 2004

    In Solectron Scotland Ltd v Roper and others [2004] IRLR 4 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employment tribunal did not err in finding that enhanced redundancy terms over and above what was paid to the applicants on their dismissal, which formed part of their contracts of employment with their previous employer, BT, and to which they were entitled by virtue of the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations 1981, had not been removed by custom or practice.

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  Somjee v United Kingdom [2002] IRLR 886 ECHR (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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  Soteriou v Ultrachem Ltd [2002] All ER (D) 396 (May) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Illegal contracts: Employee's participation in tax fraud rendered contract illegal

    Date:

    10 January 2003

    In Soteriou v Ultrachem, Solvo Ltd and Ultracolour Ltd, the EAT upholds an employment tribunal's decision that an employee's knowing and active participation in the deception of the tax authorities as to his employment status was primarily for his own benefit.

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  Soteriou v Ultrachem Ltd and others [2004] IRLR 870 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Soteriou v Ultrachem Ltd and others

    Date:

    1 November 2004

    In Soteriou v Ultrachem Ltd and others [2004] IRLR 870 HC, the High Court held that the EAT had not erred in striking out the applicant's claim for wrongful dismissal on the basis that an employment tribunal had already determined on a claim for unfair dismissal that the applicant's contract of employment was unenforceable due to illegality and that, since the claim for wrongful dismissal involved the same contract, the EAT was bound by that finding.

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  Sothern v Franks Charlesly & Co [1981] IRLR 278 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sothern v Franks Charlesly & Co

    Date:

    1 June 1981

    In Sothern v Franks Charlesly & Co [1981] IRLR 278 CA, the Court of Appeal held that the words "I am resigning" are not ambiguous, so that a reasonable employer would not have interpreted the words when used by the respondent employee as a resignation in the circumstances of the present case.

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  South Ayrshire Council v Morton [2002] IRLR 256 CS (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Teacher can compare pay with that in another authority

    Date:

    15 April 2002

    In South Ayrshire Council v Morton, the Inner House of the Court of Session holds that a teacher could compare her pay with an employee in another local authority for the purposes of an equal pay claim.