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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.
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- Date:
- 1 July 2001
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An employee who was summarily and wrongfully dismissed 12 days before his 55th birthday, albeit with 12 weeks' pay in lieu of notice, was in principle entitled to claim damages made up of the amount that he would have been paid but for the employer's repudiatory breach of his contract of employment, holds the Court of Appeal in Silvey v Pendragon plc.
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- Date:
- 1 July 2001
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In HM Prison Service v Salmon, the EAT upholds an award of £20,000 for injury to feelings, including £5,000 aggravated damages, and a separate, undiscounted award of £15,000 for psychiatric injury, made by an employment tribunal that had partially upheld a former prison officer's complaint of unlawful sex discrimination.
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- Date:
- 1 May 2001
- Type:
- Employment law cases
There is no common law contractual remedy for financial or other loss allegedly flowing from the manner or circumstances of an employee's dismissal, holds the House of Lords in Johnson v Unisys Ltd.
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- Type:
- FAQs