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  Williams v HM Prison Service EAT/1236/00 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: When to construct hypothetical comparator

    Date:

    15 June 2002

    In Balamoody v United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting the Court of Appeal holds that an employment tribunal should have constructed a hypothetical comparator against which to consider whether there was evidence to support an inference that the complainant's treatment had been tainted with race discrimination. And the EAT holds in Williams v H M Prison Service that there is no additional duty on a tribunal to construct and consider the position of a hypothetical comparator.

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  Williams v J Walter Thompson Group Ltd [2005] IRLR 376 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Employer knew of disability at recruitment and failed to adjust

    Date:

    27 May 2005

    In Williams v J Walter Thompson Group Ltd, the Court of Appeal holds that an employment tribunal was correct to decide that a blind employee suffered unlawful disability discrimination and constructive unfair dismissal when her employer failed to provide her with the specialist equipment and training necessary for her to carry out the IT work for which she was appointed.

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  Williams v Watsons Luxury Coaches Ltd [1990] IRLR 164 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Frustration and long-term illness

    Date:

    9 May 1990

    The doctrine of frustration should be severely limited in its scope when applied to employment contracts says the EAT in Williams v Watsons Luxury Coaches Ltd.

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  Williams-Ryan v Marks & Spencer plc [2004] All ER (D) 73 (Sep) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    26 November 2004

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

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  Willow Oak Developments Ltd t/a Windsor Recruitment v Silverwood and others [2006] IRLR 607 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Refusal to sign unreasonable restrictive covenants can be fair reason for dismissal

    Date:

    20 October 2006

    In Willow Oak Developments Ltd t/a Windsor Recruitment v Silverwood and others [2006] IRLR 607 CA, the Court of Appeal holds that a refusal to sign post-employment restrictive covenants can amount to a potentially fair reason for dismissal. However, the tribunal was entitled to find that the way in which the employer had sought to impose the change was procedurally unfair.

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  Wilson (HM Inspector of Taxes) v Clayton [2005] IRLR 108 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Compromise payment not taxable

    Date:

    14 January 2005

    The Court of Appeal has upheld the decision of the High Court in Wilson (HM Inspector of Taxes) v Clayton that a payment from an employer under a compromise agreement should be treated as a termination payment under s.403 of the Income (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003.

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  Wilson and others v St Helens Borough Council [1996] IRLR 320 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Transfer Regulations preclude consensual variation of contract

    Date:

    1 May 1996

    In Wilson and others v St Helens Borough Council, the EAT holds that the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations prohibit even a consensual variation in the terms and conditions of employment of employees transferred where the transfer of the undertaking is the reason for the variation

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  Wilson and others v St Helens Borough Council; British Fuels Ltd v Baxendale and Meade [1998] IRLR 706 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Dismissal by reason of transfer is effective

    Date:

    15 November 1998

    Employees who are dismissed by the transferor of an undertaking, and then re-engaged by the transferee on different but agreed terms, are not entitled to retain the benefit of their previous terms of employment, holds the House of Lords in Wilson and others v St Helens Borough Council and Baxendale and Meade v British Fuels Ltd.

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  Wilson and others v St Helens Borough Council; Meade and Baxendale v British Fuels Ltd [1997] IRLR 505 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: ETO reason required for variation of contract on transfer

    Date:

    15 August 1997

    In (1) Wilson and others v St Helens Borough Council (2) Meade and another v British Fuels Ltd, the Court of Appeal considers the position under the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations where employees' contracts of employment are terminated on a relevant transfer and they accept employment with the transferee on less favourable terms and conditions.

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  Wilson, Palmer and others v United Kingdom [2002] IRLR 568 ECHR (1 report relating to this case)

  • Trade Unions: Financial incentives violated trade union members' human rights

    Date:

    1 August 2002

    In Wilson and others v the United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights holds that, whereas the absence under UK domestic law of compulsory collective bargaining did not, in itself, give rise to a violation of article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, preventing employees from exercising their right to have their trade union protect their interests rendered that right illusory.