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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this case, the industrial tribunal in Northern Ireland ordered a care worker's former employer to pay her £9,500 for sex discrimination after it failed to provide her with a reference.
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- Type:
- Training
A quiz for line managers to test their knowledge on providing and requesting references.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
Annabel Mackay, managing associate at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.
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- Employment law cases
Richard Ryan, associate, Helen Ward, associate, and Tori O'Neil, trainee solicitor, Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering references.
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- Date:
- 1 February 2002
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Legal & General Assurance Ltd v Kirk [2002] IRLR 124 CA, the Court of Appeal held that a case based on negligent misstatement must involve a statement, such as a reference, to a third party. It ruled that the duty to take reasonable care in preparing references does not extend to cover a situation in which no negligent reference has in fact been given.
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- Date:
- 1 July 2001
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Cox v Sun Alliance Life Ltd, the Court of Appeal holds that an employer was, through one of its employees, in breach of its duty to take reasonable care to provide an accurate and fair reference for a former employee, who resigned before the employer had completed pending disciplinary proceedings involving investigations into allegations of misconduct.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 1 May 2000
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Kidd v Axa Equity & Law Life Assurance Society plc and another [2000] IRLR 301 HC, the High Court held that the duty of care in respect of the provision of references extends to taking reasonable care not to give misleading information.
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- Date:
- 15 July 1999
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An employer did not act in breach of its common law duty of care in providing a reference for a former employee which stated that, when he had taken voluntary severance, he was suspended from work because of a charge of gross misconduct, but that disciplinary proceedings had lapsed automatically when his employment terminated, holds the Court of Appeal in Bartholomew v London Borough of Hackney.