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  • Date:
    1 September 2002
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Yeboah v Crofton

    In Yeboah v Crofton [2002] IRLR 634 CA, the Court of Appeal held that an employee can be made personally liable for acts of unlawful discrimination committed by him or her in the course of his or her employment against a fellow employee, even though the employer is held not to be legally liable for its conduct because it took reasonably practicable steps to prevent its employee from doing the act in question.

  • Date:
    1 August 2002
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Trade Unions: Financial incentives violated trade union members' human rights

    In Wilson and others v the United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights holds that, whereas the absence under UK domestic law of compulsory collective bargaining did not, in itself, give rise to a violation of article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, preventing employees from exercising their right to have their trade union protect their interests rendered that right illusory.

  • Date:
    1 August 2002
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    UK in breach of rights of transsexuals

    In Goodwin v United Kingdom (11 July 2002), the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rules that the lack of recognition in the UK of a transsexual's new gender identity for legal purposes is a breach both of article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (respect for private life) and article 12 (right to marry).

  • Date:
    24 June 2002
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Human rights: Disciplinary proceedings did not breach trader's right to a fair trial

    Disciplinary proceedings taken by the Securities and Futures Authority against a securities trader involved the "determination of his civil rights and obligations", but not the determination of "any criminal charge" within the meaning of article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, even though the proceedings could result in fines and a suspension, holds the Court of Appeal in R v Securities and Futures Authority Ltd and another ex parte Fleurose.

  • Date:
    15 June 2002
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Race discrimination: When to construct hypothetical comparator

    In Balamoody v United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting the Court of Appeal holds that an employment tribunal should have constructed a hypothetical comparator against which to consider whether there was evidence to support an inference that the complainant's treatment had been tainted with race discrimination. And the EAT holds in Williams v H M Prison Service that there is no additional duty on a tribunal to construct and consider the position of a hypothetical comparator.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case roundup: company car policy and sex discrimination

    This week's case roundup from Eversheds, covering company car policy and sex discrimination.

  • Date:
    15 May 2002
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Procedure: No extension of time while grievance procedure is being used

    The Court of Appeal in Apelogun-Gabriels v London Borough of Lambeth holds that there is no general principle that it will be just and equitable to extend time for bringing a tribunal claim where the applicant is using the employer's internal grievance procedure.

  • Date:
    1 May 2002
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    "Institutionalised racism" comment decried

    In Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Morgan (6 February 2002), the EAT criticises an employment tribunal for finding that there was "institutionalised" racism in the Revenue's solicitors' department.

  • Type:
    FAQs

    Will a case of alleged discrimination have to go to an employment tribunal?

  • Date:
    15 April 2002
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Equal pay: Teacher can compare pay with that in another authority

    In South Ayrshire Council v Morton, the Inner House of the Court of Session holds that a teacher could compare her pay with an employee in another local authority for the purposes of an equal pay claim.

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