Cases within V

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  V v Addey & Stanhope School [2004] All ER (D) 561 (Jul) CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Discrimination: Employee's illegal acts prevent race discrimination remedy

    Date:

    3 September 2004

    In V v Addey & Stanhope School, the Court of Appeal holds that the extent of the employee's illegal and criminal conduct was such that it prevented him from pursuing a race discrimination claim.

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  Van Den Akker v Stichting Shell Pensioenfonds [1994] IRLR 616 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • ECJ rules on pension discrimination

    Date:

    1 December 1994

    The European Court of Justice has handed down its rulings in six cases on issues relating to sex equality and occupational pension schemes in light of the decision in Barber v Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Group EOR32A.

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  Varghai v Caffyns plc [2005] All ER (D) 94 (Mar) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    10 June 2005

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

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  Vauxhall Motors Ltd v Transport and General Workers' Union [2006] IRLR 674 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Collective redundancies: No fresh compliance with duty to consult required

    Date:

    4 August 2006

    In Vauxhall Motors Ltd v Transport and General Workers Union EAT/0657/05, the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that where an employer commences consultation in compliance with the statutory requirements, but no redundancies take place until a much later date, no fresh compliance will be required if meaningful consultation has continued during the interim period.

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  Veakins v Kier Islington Ltd [2010] IRLR 132 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Protection from harassment: "Oppressive and unacceptable" conduct is test for harassment

    Date:

    10 March 2010

    In Veakins v Kier Islington Ltd [2010] IRLR 132 CA, the Court of Appeal held that an employee who was bullied at work by her line manager had been harassed within the meaning of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. While the Court had to keep in mind the need for the conduct complained of to be serious enough to sustain criminal liability, the key test was whether or not it was "oppressive and unacceptable". On the unchallenged evidence before the Court, it clearly was.

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  Vento v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police (No.2) [2003] IRLR 102 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sex discrimination: Guidance on awards for injury to feelings in discrimination cases

    Date:

    4 April 2003

    In Vento v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police (No.2), the Court of Appeal holds that an employment tribunal was entitled to award £165,000 for future loss of earnings to a probationer police constable who suffered sex discrimination, culminating in her dismissal at the age of 30, two years after her appointment.

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  Verdin v Harrods Ltd [2006] IRLR 339 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    4 August 2006

    IRS Employment Review looks at decisions on procedural points that have arisen in the EAT and Court of Appeal in the time since its last procedural round-up in December 2005.

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  Vernon v Event Management Catering Ltd EAT/0616/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Continuity of employment: Casual worker's continuity not broken by holiday

    Date:

    14 September 2007

    In Vernon v Event Management Catering Ltd EAT/0161/07 the EAT held that a casual worker who, with the exception of a single two-week break to take a holiday, worked every week for more than three years was an employee and had sufficient continuity of service to claim unfair dismissal. He could demonstrate the existence of a contract of employment in each week during the relevant period and the period of holiday did not break his continuity of employment.

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  Viasystems (Tyneside) Ltd v Thermal Transfer (Northern) Ltd and others [2005] IRLR 983 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employer's liability: Dual vicarious liability possible

    Date:

    30 December 2005

    In Viasystems (Tyneside) Ltd v Thermal Transfer (Northern) Ltd and others, the Court of Appeal holds that more than one "employer" can be vicariously liable for the negligence of an employee, overturning a long-standing assumption that it is possible in law only for one employer to be so liable.

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  Vicary v British Telecommunications plc [1999] IRLR 680 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Tribunal wrongly approached question of whether or not complainant was disabled

    Date:

    1 November 1999

    In Vicary v British Telecommunications plc, the EAT holds that an employment tribunal's conclusion that a woman did not have a disability for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 was perverse.