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- Date:
- 9 December 2002
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Wilding v British Telecommunications plc, the Court of Appeal upholds a decision by an employment tribunal that, by refusing an offer of part-time re-employment, an employee who had been unfairly dismissed and discriminated against on the ground of his disability had thereby failed to mitigate his loss.
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- Date:
- 9 December 2002
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Zaiwalla & Co and another v Walia the EAT holds that an employment tribunal which upheld an employee's complaint of sex discrimination was entitled to award aggravated damages of £7,500 to reflect the fact that the employer conducted its defence of the tribunal proceedings in a manner deliberately designed to be intimidatory and threatening, and to cause the maximum distress to the employee.
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- Date:
- 15 May 2002
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal in Apelogun-Gabriels v London Borough of Lambeth holds that there is no general principle that it will be just and equitable to extend time for bringing a tribunal claim where the applicant is using the employer's internal grievance procedure.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 15 March 2002
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police v Vento, the EAT upholds an appeal against an employment tribunal's manifestly excessive awards of £165,000 for future loss of earnings, and £65,000 for injury to feelings (which included £15,000 aggravated damages) to a former probationer police officer who suffered unlawful sex discrimination.
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- Date:
- 31 December 2001
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Kuddus v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary [2001] UKHL 29, the House of Lords allowed an appeal against a strike out of a claim for exemplary damages for the tort of misfeasance. It held that exemplary damages were not restricted to causes of action for which exemplary damages had been awarded prior to 1964. The House of Lords did not expressly decide whether exemplary damages should be available in discrimination cases.
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- Date:
- 1 December 2001
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal holds in Asamoah-Boakye v Walter Rodney Housing Association Ltd that there was no termination by mutual agreement where the parties failed to agree on all the terms of the agreement, including the incorporation of those terms into a valid compromise agreement, with the result that it was never signed by the parties.
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- Date:
- 1 December 2001
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Eastbourne Borough Council v Foster, the Court of Appeal holds that where a contract of employment was varied and subsequently terminated pursuant to a compromise agreement later found to be void, the original contract was repudiated by conduct, not brought to an end by mutual consent, and replaced by a new contract.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal gives important guidance on how far tribunals need to go in exploring the circumstances of a claim. Plus cases on protected disclosure, redundancy selection, discrimination by an agent, working time exemptions and constructive dismissal.