Employment tribunals and courts

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• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round up

  Sally Logan, associate at Addleshaw Goddard, brings you a comprehensive update on the latest decisions that could affect your organisation, and provides advice on what to do about them.

• Date:

  10 June 2005

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Points of procedure

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

• Date:

  13 May 2005

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Trade unions: Compensation where no loss suffered

  In Skiggs v South West Trains Ltd, the EAT holds that the employment tribunal was entitled to hold, on the facts, that an investigative meeting concerning a grievance about an employee who had previously been disciplined was not a disciplinary hearing for the purpose of s.10 of the Employment Relations Act 1999.

• Date:

  25 March 2005

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Unfair dismissal: Employee need not give credit for monies earned during notice period

  In Voith Turbo Ltd v Stowe, the EAT holds that, applying the principles established in Norton Tool Co Ltd v Tewson, the tribunal was entitled to find that an unfairly dismissed employee did not have to give credit for earnings achieved during the period covered by notice pay made by his former employer.

• Date:

  26 November 2004

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Points of procedure

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

• Date:

  12 November 2004

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Discrimination: Approach to be taken to harassment complaints

  In Scott v Commissioners of Inland Revenue the Court of Appeal holds that an employment tribunal erred in awarding only £15,000 in respect of the psychiatric injury caused to an employee by the way in which his employer dealt with allegations of sexual harassment made against him by a work colleague.

• Date:

  22 October 2004

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employment tribunal jurisdiction: Judicial immunity for Police Disciplinary Board proceedings

  In Heath v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis, the Court of Appeal holds that proceedings before a Police Disciplinary Board are judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings to which the rule of immunity from suit attaches.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Does an employment tribunal have the power to strike out a weak claim or response?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer insist that an employment tribunal hearing remains confidential?

• Date:

  24 September 2004

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Damages: Pre-dismissal psychiatric injury claims can proceed

  In Eastwood and another v Magnox Electric plc; McCabe v Cornwall County Council and others, the House of Lords holds that, in cases where psychiatric injury is alleged to have been caused by acts of the employer committed prior to, and separately from the act of dismissal itself, a cause of action will exist at common law for damages.