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USDAW & Anor v Ethel Austin Ltd & Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 142
Judgment explaining reasons for referring this case to the CJEU. The proceedings involve collective redundancy consultation where the insolvent employers had multiple sites, some with more and some with fewer than 20 employees, the limit required by s188 of TULRCA 1992 to qualify for a protective award. Employees at the smaller sites had been unsuccessful in their claims for such an award.
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23/02/2014 17:54
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The Solicitors Regulation Authority v Mitchell UKEAT/0497/12/MC
Appeal against finding of sex discrimination where the claimant's home working arrangement had been withdrawn. Appeal dismissed.
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23/02/2014 17:46
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Swanston New Golf Club Ltd v Gallagher UKEATS/0033/13/BI
Appeal against refusal of a Polkey reduction and a deduction of 33% for contributory fault. Appeal dismissed.
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23/02/2014 17:29
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British Telecommunications PLC v Luck & Ors [2014] EWHC 290 (QB)
Application by defendant to strike out claim of tort as time-barred where the claimants, former employees of the respondent who had been TUPE’d to a joint venture, were seeking compensation because they had subsequently lost their final salary pension benefits. Application unsuccessful.
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23/02/2014 11:35
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South Wales Police Authority v Johnson [2014] EWCA Civ 73
Appeal against the dismissal by the EAT of the respondent’s challenge to the ET’s decision on race discrimination. Appeal allowed and the claims were dismissed in their entirety
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23/02/2014 10:12
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Kayani v University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust UKEAT/0369/13/SM
Appeal in unlawful deductions claim where the claimant, a doctor, was seeking pay protection while training but where the respondent said that he had been overpaid in his previous position and so they were not bound to protect that level of pay. Appeal dismissed.
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13/02/2014 20:17
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Kemeh v Ministry of Defence [2014] EWCA Civ 91
Appeal against an EAT decision which overturned an ET ruling that an employee was acting as an agent of the respondent and therefore the claimant could make a claim of race discrimination against the respondent. Second appeal against the EAT’s reduction in the injury to feelings award made by the ET. Both appeals dismissed.
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12/02/2014 18:32
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UNISON v Street & Anor UKEAT/0256/13/LA
Appeal against a decision by the Certification Officer that the union was in breach of its rules by failing to hold an AGM whilst the particular branch was under regional supervision. Appeal allowed and the case was remitted back to the Certification Officer to enable him to decide if the suspension of the requirement to hold the AGM was both necessary and a proportionate way of achieving the aims which regional supervision was intended to achieve.
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12/02/2014 18:00
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Portnykh v Nomura International Plc UKEAT/0448/13/LA
Application by successful claimant at the EAT that the respondent should pay him his fee, which he had had to pay to bring the appeal, as costs. Application allowed.
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12/02/2014 17:38
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Barclays Banks Plc v Mitchell UKEAT/0279/13/JOJ
Appeal against a finding that the claimant had suffered a detriment for making a protected disclosure. Appeal allowed and remitted to the same ET so that they could reconsider the causation issue afresh on the basis of the facts found.
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12/02/2014 14:55
