Unfair dismissal

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• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Unfair dismissal: EAT considers required level of investigation into misconduct

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has reiterated the importance of employers carrying out a sufficiently thorough disciplinary investigation where there are allegations of criminal behaviour.

• 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

  NHS trust's non-renewal of anaesthetist's fixed-term contract was fair

  The employment tribunal in this case concluded that it was open to an NHS trust to decide not to renew a consultant anaesthetist's fixed-term contract because it had recruited a number of permanent anaesthetists to take on the work.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  University's non-renewal of tutor's fixed-term contract was fair

  The employment tribunal in this case concluded that it was not unfair for a university to decide against renewing an associate tutor's fixed-term contract because the work that he had been doing was taken over by permanent staff.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

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

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  "Over-authoritarian" manager should have been warned about possibility of dismissal

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld the employment tribunal decision that a manager was unfairly dismissed for behaving in an "over-authoritarian manner" because he was not warned that a possible consequence of continuing to act in this way was dismissal.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Fair dismissal of foreign worker who could not prove right to work in the UK

  This employment tribunal case arose from a situation in which the employer felt that it had no option but to dismiss a foreign worker who lost her right to work in the UK.

• Date:

  23 April 2013

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Fair dismissal of security supervisor who did not hold required security licence

  This private security contractor, which needed most employees by law to hold a security licence, fairly dismissed an employee who did not have the required documentation.

• 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

  Employee entitled to believe supervisor had authority to dismiss

  This case concerns whether or not an employee was entitled to consider that his supervisor had sufficient authority to dismiss him.