Unfair dismissal

The decision of the House of Lords in the conjoined appeals of Eastwood & anor v Magnox Electric plc and McCabe v Cornwall County Council & ors addre...

The authors state in the preface that this is a book "designed to assist lawyers who do not profess to be experts in employment law and non-lawyers such as human resou...

Claimants can recover `stigma damages' following a discriminatory dismissal though the Court of Appeal doubted whether the practical implications of the decision w...

In Unilever UK plc v Hickinson and Sodexo Ltd (UKEAT/0192/09), the Employment Appeal Tribunal focused on the distinction between the alleged unlawful act and the r...

In Nicolson Highland Wear Ltd v Nicolson the EAT reviewed the question of costs applications and when it is reasonable to pursue an unfair dismissal claim. Charlot...

Tom Dawson considers whether claims can be brought under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 by employees on the ground that the dismissal amounted to unlawful...

“Many eminent common law judges, I think it fair to say, have been baffled by the problem of how to articulate a single guiding rule to distinguish receipts by a plaintiff which are to be taken int...

‘Resolving Workplace Disputes: Final Impact Assessment’, published by the government last November, indicates that were a challenge to the extension of the qualifying period for protection for unfa...