Remedies and penalties

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• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case of the week: Acas code applied to dismissal for breakdown in trust and confidence

  In DLA Piper's case of the week, Lund v St Edmund's School, Canterbury, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures should have been followed in a case where the reason for dismissal was stated to be for "some other substantial reason" (SOSR), but disciplinary proceedings ought to have been invoked.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Amanda Steadman is a professional support lawyer, and Joe Beeston, Laura Garner, Helen Samuel and Dinu Suntook are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  TUPE consultation: EAT provides guidance on protective awards for technical breaches

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has provided guidance on how tribunals should assess protective awards where an employer has breached its obligation to inform and consult on a TUPE transfer.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Discrimination: EAT provides guidance on injury to feelings awards and aggravated damages

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has provided guidance on remedies for discrimination claims, including injury to feelings and aggravated damages.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case of the week: EAT considers school assistant's whistleblowing claim

  This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, concerns a school assistant who claimed that she was dismissed for whistleblowing after she went to the press over her treatment for telling parents that their child had been bullied.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  David Malamatenios is a partner and Colin Makin, Sandra Martins, Melissa Powys- Rodrigues and Linda Quinn are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Court of Appeal upholds EAT decision that "indivisible damage" is not attributable to one party

  The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision by the Employment Appeal Tribunal that, where there are multiple respondents and particular loss cannot be attributed to one party, employment tribunals must award compensation on a joint and several liability basis, meaning that the claimant can claim the entire amount from any respondent. 

• Date:

  23 January 2013

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Acas code of practice: Uplift to compensation for failure to follow code not available to workers

  In Local Government Yorkshire and Humber v Shah EAT/0587/11 & EAT/0026/12, the EAT held that the potential uplift in compensation awarded where an employer unreasonably fails to comply with the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures" applies only in the case of employees. A worker who was subjected to an unlawful detriment was not entitled to an uplift.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Carly Mather, Lydia Newman and Amy Ross-Sercombe are associates and Amanda Steadman is a professional support lawyer at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamentenios are partners and Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.