Results: 84

• Foster v British Gas Plc

  25 Sep 1986 [1987] ICR 52, IT

  06 Jul 1987 [1987] ICR 904, EAT

  13 May 1988 [1988] ICR 584, CA

  12 Jul 1990 (Case C-188/89); EU:C:1990:313; [1991] 1 QB 405; [1991] 2 WLR 258; [1991] ICR 84; [1990] 3 All ER 897; The Times, 13 July 1990, ECJ

  18 Apr 1991 [1991] 2 AC 306; [1991] 2 WLR 1075; [1991] ICR 463; [1991] 2 All ER 705; [1991] IRLR 268; (1991) 135 SJ 506; The Times, 19 April 1991; The Independent, 19 April 1991, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 6 positive; 4 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 68.
  DISCRIMINATION, SEX — Employment — Retirement

  EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY — Council Directive — Implementation

  DISCRIMINATION — Sex — Employment

  EUROPEAN COMMUNITY — Council Directive — Implementation
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  DISCRIMINATION, SEX — Employment — Retirement — British Gas Corporation employees retired on reaching pension age — Different age for men and women — Whether corporation state authority — Whether unlawful discrimination — Council Directive (76/207/EEC), art 5(1)

  EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY — Council Directive — Implementation — Enforcement against member state — Public authority's discrimination against female employees — National legislation not conforming to Directive — Whether nationalised industry state employer — Sex Discrimination Act 1975, s 6(4) — Council Directive (76/207/EEC), art 5(1)

  DISCRIMINATION — Sex — Employment — Retirement — British Gas Corporation employees retired on reaching pension age — Different ages for men and women — Whether corporation state authority — Whether unlawful discrimination — Council Directive (76/207/EEC), art 5(1)

  EUROPEAN COMMUNITY — Council Directive — Implementation — Enforcement against member state — Whether nationalised industry state employer — Council Directive (76/207/EEC), art 5(1)

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statute considered
• Alexander v Home Office

  12 Feb 1988 [1988] 1 WLR 968; [1988] ICR 685; [1988] 2 All ER 118, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 43.
  DISCRIMINATION, RACE — Damages — Prisoner
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  DISCRIMINATION, RACE — Damages — Prisoner — Unlawful racial discrimination against prisoner — Refusal of work in prison kitchen — Prisoner suffering loss of earnings and deprivation of congenial work — Whether court's finding of discrimination sufficient vindication — Whether general damages to be more than nominal — Whether aggravated and exemplary damages awardable — Race Relations Act 1976, s 57(4)

  3 Case(s) considered

• Weaver v National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education

  11 Dec 1987 [1988] ICR 599, EAT

  DISCRIMINATION, RACE — Employment — Trade union, discrimination by
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  DISCRIMINATION, RACE — Employment — Trade union, discrimination by — Applicant seeking union assistance with complaint against fellow union member — Union rule to assist members discriminated against — Union refusing assistance on ground contrary to policy to support member where other member's job at risk — Nature of condition applied to applicant — Whether discriminatory — Race Relations Act 1976, ss 1(1)(b), 11
• Hayward v Cammell Laird Shipbuilders Ltd (No 2)

  19 May 1986 [1986] ICR 862, EAT

  05 Mar 1987 [1988] QB 12; [1987] 3 WLR 20; [1987] ICR 682; [1987] 2 All ER 344, CA

  05 May 1988 (pet all) [1988] AC 894; [1987] 3 WLR 30F; [1988] 2 WLR 1134; [1988] ICR 464; [1988] 2 All ER 257, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 34.
  DISCRIMINATION, SEX — Equal pay — Work of equal value
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  DISCRIMINATION, SEX — Equal pay — Work of equal value — Work of applicant and male comparators of equal value — Applicant's basic pay less than comparators — Other conditions more favourable to applicant — Whether entitlement to complain of inequality in relation to specific term irrespective of benefits under contract as a whole — Equal Pay Act 1970, s 1(2)(c) (as amended by Sex Discrimination Act 1975, s 8 and Equal Pay (Amendment) Regulations 1983, reg 2(1))

  2 Case(s) considered
• Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council v Brown (Brown v Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council)

  21 Jul 1986 [1986] ICR 842, EAT

  20 Mar 1987 [1987] ICR 897, CA

  21 Apr 1988 [1989] AC 20; [1988] 2 WLR 935; [1989] 2 WLR 935; [1988] ICR 410; [1988] 2 All ER 129; 86 LGR 561, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 7.
  EMPLOYMENT — Unfair dismissal — Redundancy
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  EMPLOYMENT — Unfair dismissal — Redundancy — Pregnancy of employee — Employee not offered re-engagement — Whether reason for dismissal pregnancy — Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978, ss 57(2)(c)(3), 60(1)

  2 Case(s) considered

• Isleworth Studios Ltd v Rickard

  04 Dec 1987 [1988] QB 882; [1988] 2 WLR 1059; [1988] ICR 432, EAT

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  EMPLOYMENT — Unfair dismissal — Compensation
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  EMPLOYMENT — Unfair dismissal — Compensation — Summary dismissal before expiry of one year's contract — Increased earnings following dismissal — No financial loss — Whether applicant entitled to compensation — Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978, s 74(1)

  2 Case(s) considered

• Lynock v Cereal Packaging Ltd

  15 Mar 1988 [1988] ICR 670, EAT

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  EMPLOYMENT — Unfair dismissal — Reasonableness of dismissal
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  EMPLOYMENT — Unfair dismissal — Reasonableness of dismissal — Incapacity due to ill health — Intermittent absences due to ill-health — Dismissal — Absence of medical evidence at hearing — Whether need to call medical evidence — Whether dismissal unfair
• Powell v Brent London Borough Council

  29 Jul 1987 [1988] ICR 176, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 6.
  INJUNCTION — Interlocutory — Contract of employment
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  INJUNCTION — Interlocutory — Contract of employment — Employee applying for higher grade post — Employee orally informed of successful application — Subsequent refusal by employer to confirm appointment — Dispute whether employee ever appointed — Temporary undertaking by employer not to readvertise post — Employee fulfilling disputed post pending resolution of dispute — Employee's claim to permanent injunction — Whether interlocutory injunction to be granted restraining employer from readvertising pending trial

  2 Case(s) considered

• British Coal Corpn v Cheesbrough

  29 Jul 1987 [1988] ICR 60, EAT

  11 May 1988 [1988] ICR 769, CA

  15 Feb 1990 [1990] 2 AC 256; [1990] 2 WLR 407; [1990] ICR 317; [1990] 1 All ER 641; The Times, 15 February 1990, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  EMPLOYMENT — Redundancy — Payment, calculation of
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  EMPLOYMENT — Redundancy — Payment, calculation of — Week's pay — Average hourly rate of remuneration — Incentive bonus paid for shift work — Overtime rate paid without bonus — Whether overtime to be calculated at shift rate with bonus — Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978, Sch 14, paras 3, 5(1)(2)

  3 Case(s) considered

• Munir v Jang Publications

  15 Jul 1987 [1988] ICR 214, EAT

  02 Nov 1988 [1989] ICR 1, CA

  Subsequent citations: 16.
  INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS — Industrial tribunals — Findings of fact
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  INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS — Industrial tribunals — Findings of fact — Industrial tribunal determining preliminary issue as to jurisdiction — Whether tribunal's findings of fact binding on tribunal hearing substantive issue — Application of doctrine of res judicata

  1 Case considered