Employment tribunals and courts

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• Date:

  1 November 2006

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Collective redundancies: Tribunal's discretion in making protective awards

  In Leicestershire County Council v Unison [2006] IRLR 810 CA, the Court of Appeal holds that a tribunal was entitled to make the maximum protective award in respect of a group of employees who had been dismissed and offered new terms without consultation with the relevant unions.

• Date:

  6 October 2006

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Sex discrimination: No compensation for loss of severance package

  In Brash-Hall v Getty Images Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 531 CA, the Court of Appeal holds that an employee dismissed in circumstances that amounted to sex discrimination, but who would have subsequently been dismissed for redundancy in any event, was not entitled to recover compensation reflecting an enhanced redundancy package.

• Date:

  4 August 2006

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Points of procedure

  IRS Employment Review looks at decisions on procedural points that have arisen in the EAT and Court of Appeal in the time since its last procedural round-up in December 2005.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up: Withdrawal of tribunal claims

  This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering withdrawal of tribunal claims.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up: Constructive dismissal compensation and injury to feelings award

  This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering: constructive dismissal compensation; and injury to feelings awards.

• Date:

  2 June 2006

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employment status: Teacher who worked on succession of short-term assignments was employee

  In Cornwall County Council v Prater [2006] EWCA Civ 102 CA, the Court of Appeal holds that a lack of mutuality of obligation during "gaps" between successive teaching assignments over a period of 10 years did not, of itself, prevent each separate assignment from constituting an individual contract of employment.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Polkey's place in the modern world

  The Court of Appeal has handed down an important decision emphasising the wide discretion that an employment tribunal has to make a 'Polkey reduction' - a ruling that dismissal would have occurred, or would probably have occurred even if a fair procedure or proper investigation had been followed - in an unfair dismissal case.

• Date:

  7 April 2006

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Transfer of undertakings: Compensation for failure to consult on TUPE transfer

  In Sweetin v Coral Racing, the EAT holds that awards of compensation for a failure to inform and consult about staff transfers under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations should be penal and not compensatory. 

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Sophy Robinson and Karen Fletcher of Addleshaw Goddard outline the latest legal rulings and explain what you need to know to avoid tribunals.

• Type:

  FAQs

  If an employee behaves in a way that results in another employee bringing a successful discrimination claim can the tribunal require the first employee to pay compensation?