Results: 124

• Williams v NHS Business Services Authority

  28 Jul 2016 [2016] EWHC 1952 (Ch); [2017] ICR 327; [2016] WLR (D) 461, Ch D (Warren J)

  PENSIONS — Pension scheme — National Health Service
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  PENSIONS — Pension scheme — National Health Service — Special provisions applicable to members in “pensionable employment as a nurse” — Whether applicable to nursery nurse working in neonatal unit — National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995 (SI 1995/300), Part R, reg 2

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• R (Forsey) v Northern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court

  19 May 2017 [2017] EWHC 1152 (QB); [2017] ICR 1161; [2017] WLR (D) 344, DC (Lord Justice Treacy, Mr Justice Foskett)

  06 Dec 2017 (appn dis) [2018] ICR 573, SC(E) (Lord Wilson, Lord Reed, Lord Hughes JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CROWN — Minister — Statutory powers
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  CROWN — Minister — Statutory powers — Offence of failing to notify redundancies to Secretary of State — Proceedings instituted against employer by official in Secretary of State’s department — Official having no specific consent or authorisation from Secretary of State — Whether permitted to act as Secretary of State’s alter ego under relevant legislation — Whether proceedings lawfully instituted — Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c 52), s 194(2)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

• Greenway v Johnson Matthey plc (Dryden v Johnson Matthey plc)

  26 Nov 2014 [2014] EWHC 3957 (QB); [2015] PIQR P10; [2014] CN 2094, QBD (Jay J)

  28 Apr 2016 [2016] EWCA Civ 408; [2016] 1 WLR 4487; [2017] ICR 43; [2016] WLR (D) 224, CA

  06 Dec 2016 (appn all) [2017] 1 WLR 566; [2017] ICR 276, SC(E)

  21 Mar 2018 [2018] UKSC 18; [2019] AC 403; [2018] 2 WLR 1109; [2018] ICR 715; [2018] 3 All ER 755; [2018] WLR (D) 182; Case details, SC(E) (Baroness Hale of Richmond PSC, Lord Wilson, Lord Reed, Lady Black, Lord Lloyd-Jones JJSC)

  Subsequent citations: 16.
  NEGLIGENCE — Damage — Tort

  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care — Employee
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  NEGLIGENCE — Damage — Tort — Contract — Claimants employed by defendant at chemical plant — Claimants developing sensitivity to platinum salts — Claimants bringing claims in tort and contract — Whether claimants suffering actionable injury

  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care — Employee — Claimants developing sensitivity to platinum salts following employer’s breach of statutory duty — Sensitivity not physically harmful — Collective agreement providing for contractual periodic testing of employees at risk of sensitisation to avoid development of platinum allergy — Further provision for redeployment of sensitised employees or termination of employment on special terms — Claimants claiming in tort and contract for financial losses on redeployment or termination — Whether claimants suffering actionable injury — Whether employer owing duty of care to protect from financial loss — Whether implied term in contract to protect from financial loss

  NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care — Employee — Claimants developing sensitivity to platinum salts following employer’s breach of statutory duty — Sensitivity not itself physically harmful but leading to allergic reaction on further exposure to platinum salts — Employment contracts providing for periodic testing of employees at risk of sensitisation to avoid development of platinum allergy — Further provision for redeployment of sensitised employees or termination of employment on special terms — Claimants claiming in tort for financial losses on redeployment or termination — Whether claimants suffering actionable personal injury

  6 Case(s) considered

• Bellman v Northampton Recruitment Ltd

  01 Dec 2016 [2016] EWHC 3104 (QB); [2017] ICR 543; [2016] WLR (D) 661, QBD (His Honour Judge Cotter)

  11 Oct 2018 [2018] EWCA Civ 2214; [2019] ICR 459; [2019] 1 All ER 1133; [2018] WLR (D) 519, CA (Irwin, Moylan, Asplin LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 9.
  VICARIOUS LIABILITY — Employment — Course of employment
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  VICARIOUS LIABILITY — Employment — Course of employment — Managing director of small company assaulting employee at early hours drinking session after Christmas party — Whether acting in course of employment — Whether sufficient connection between director’s position and assault — Whether company vicariously liable for assault

  VICARIOUS LIABILITY — Employment — Course of employment

  VICARIOUS LIABILITY — Employment — Course of employment — Managing director of small company assaulting employee at early hours drinking session after company Christmas party — Whether acting in course of employment — Whether sufficient connection between director’s position and assault — Whether company vicariously liable for assault

  VICARIOUS LIABILITY — Employment — Course of employment — Managing director of small company assaulting employee at early hours drinking session after company Christmas party — Whether sufficient connection between director’s position and assault — Whether company vicariously liable for assault

  4 Case(s) considered

• R (Lidl Ltd) v Central Arbitration Committee

  10 Aug 2016 [2016] EWHC 2040 (Admin); [2016] EWHC 2040 Admin, QBD (Lewis J)

  04 May 2017 [2017] EWCA Civ 328; [2017] ICR 1145; [2017] WLR (D) 311, CA (Lord Justice Longmore, Lord Justice Underhill)

  TRADE UNION — Recognition — Reference to central arbitration committee

  INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS — Trade union recognition — Bargaining unit
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  TRADE UNION — Recognition — Reference to central arbitration committee — Union proposing group of employees as appropriate bargaining unit — Proposed group comprising 1.5% of workers in same category within workforce — Whether undesirable as creating “small fragmented bargaining units” — Whether single bargaining unit with no likelihood of proliferation capable of amounting to “small fragmented bargaining units” — Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c 52), Sch A1, paras 19, 19B(2)(3)(c) (as amended by Employment Relations Act 2004 (c 24), ss 1, 4)

  INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS — Trade union recognition — Bargaining unit

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• Webber v Department for Education

  14 Oct 2016 (Pensions Ombudsman intervening) [2016] EWHC 2519 (Ch); [2017] ICR 198; [2016] WLR (D) 535, Ch D (Edward Bartley Jones QC)

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  PENSIONS — Pensions Ombudsman — Complaints procedure
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  PENSIONS — Pensions Ombudsman — Complaints procedure — Pension scheme administrator seeking recovery of pension overpayments — Pensioner complaining to ombudsman — Complaint raising limitation defence — Appropriate cut-off date for purposes of limitation — Pension Schemes Act 1993, Pt X

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Benkharbouche v Embassy of the Republic of Sudan (Janah v Libya)

  04 Oct 2013 UKEAT/401/12; [2014] ICR 169, EAT

  05 Feb 2015 (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs intervening) [2015] EWCA Civ 33; [2016] QB 347; [2015] 3 WLR 301; [2015] 3 WLR 301; [2015] ICR 793; [2016] 1 All ER 816; [2015] WLR (D) 83, CA

  18 Oct 2017 (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs intervening) [2017] UKSC 62; [2019] AC 777; [2017] 3 WLR 957; [2017] ICR 1327; [2018] 1 All ER 662; [2017] WLR (D) 691; Case details, SC(E) (Baroness Hale of Richmond PSC, Lord Wilson, Lord Sumption JJSC, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 3 neutral; most recently considered: 2023. Subsequent citations: 54.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Employment
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Employment — Domestic worker at London embassy — Claims of unfair dismissal and breach of working time provisions — Embassy claiming state immunity — Worker excluded from exception for employees — Whether denial of access to enforcement of claims breach of right to fair trial — Whether statute to be disapplied — State Immunity Act 1978, ss 4(2), 16 — Human Rights Act 1998, s 3, Sch 1, art 6 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, art 47

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Employment — Domestic worker at London embassy — Claims for unfair dismissal and breach of working time provisions — Embassy claiming state immunity — Worker excluded by statute from exception for employees — Whether denial of access to enforcement of claims breach of Convention right to fair trial — Whether declaration of incompatibility to be granted — Whether statute to be disapplied in so far as incompatible with European Union law — State Immunity Act 1978, ss 4(2), 16 — Human Rights Act 1998, ss 3, 4, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 6, 14 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union 2004, art 47

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Employment — Domestic worker at London embassy — Claims of unfair dismissal and breach of working time provisions — Embassy claiming state immunity — Worker excluded by statute from exception for employees — Whether denial of access to enforcement of claims breach of Convention right to fair trial — Whether statutory provisions to be disapplied in so far as incompatible with European Union law — State Immunity Act 1978 (c 33), ss 4(2), 16(1)(a) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 6, 14 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2004), art 47

  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Sovereign immunity — Employment — Domestic worker at London embassy — Claims of unfair dismissal and breach of working time provisions — Embassy claiming state immunity — Worker excluded by statute from exception for employees — Whether denial of access to enforcement of claims breach of Convention right to fair trial — Whether statutory provisions to be disapplied in so far as incompatible with European Union law — State Immunity Act 1978 (c 33), ss 4(2), 16(1)(a) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 6, 14 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, art 47

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Carder v University of Exeter

  28 Jul 2015 [2015] EWHC 2399 (QB), QBD (Judge Gore QC)

  29 Jul 2016 [2016] EWCA Civ 790; [2017] ICR 392; [2016] WLR (D) 445, CA

  31 Jan 2017 (appn dis) [2017] ICR 512, SC(E)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  NEGLIGENCE — Causation — Asbestos exposure
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  NEGLIGENCE — Causation — Asbestos exposure — Claimant suffering from asbestosis due to exposure to asbestos dust during four employments — 2·3% of exposure attributable to employment by defendant — Defendant’s contribution to claimant’s asbestosis accepted to be material but very small — Whether claimant suffering actionable damage

  2 Case(s) considered
• O’Brien v Bolton St Catherine’s Academy

  UKEAT/51/15, EAT

  15 Mar 2017 [2017] EWCA Civ 145; [2017] ICR 737; [2017] WLR (D) 186, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 1.
  DISCRIMINATION — Disability — Employment

  EMPLOYMENT — Unfair dismissal — Reasonableness of dismissal
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  DISCRIMINATION — Disability — Employment — Dismissal for medical incapacity after employee off sick for over a year — Dismissal upheld by internal appeal panel despite employee claiming to be fit to return to work — Whether dismissal to be justified at date of dismissal or appeal hearing — Whether dismissal proportionate — Whether unlawful discrimination — Equality Act 2010 (c 15), s 15

  EMPLOYMENT — Unfair dismissal — Reasonableness of dismissal — Dismissal for medical incapacity after employee absent sick for over a year — Dismissal upheld by internal appeal panel despite employee claiming to be fit to return to work — Tribunal finding dismissal unjustified for purposes of disability discrimination — Whether rendering dismissal unreasonable — Employment Rights Act 1996 (c 18), s 98(4)

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Windle v Secretary of State for Justice

  16 Sep 2013 [2015] ICR 156, EAT

  12 May 2016 [2016] EWCA Civ 459; [2016] ICR 721; [2017] 3 All ER 568; [2016] WLR (D) 256, CA

  07 Nov 2016 (appn dis) [2017] ICR 83, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 15.
  DISCRIMINATION — Employment — Interpreter
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  DISCRIMINATION — Employment — Interpreter — Interpreter engaged on separate assignments by courts service — No obligation to offer or to accept assignments — Whether employment under contract personally to do work — Whether employment for purposes of claim of race discrimination — Equality Act 2010, s 83(2)(a)

  DISCRIMINATION — Employment — Interpreter — Interpreter engaged on separate assignments by courts service — No obligation to offer or to accept assignments — Whether “employment under” contract personally to do work — Whether employment for purposes of race discrimination claim — Equality Act 2010, s 83(2)(a)

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered