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In William v Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, the EAT has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision that an employee’s whistleblowing detriment claim under S.47B of the Employment Rights Act 1996 failed because the employer had not subjected her to detriments on the ground that she had made a protected disclosure.

In British Airways plc v Mello and ors, the EAT has held that a tribunal erred in its assessment of whether deductions from wages were ‘sufficiently similar’ and ‘sufficiently temporal’ to form part of a ‘series of deductions’ for the purposes of the time limit that applies to a series of unauthorised deductions under the Employment Rights Act 1996.

In Stena Drilling PTE Ltd v Smith, the EAT has overturned an employment tribunal’s decision that it had jurisdiction to hear unfair dismissal and discrimination claims brought by a seafarer employed on vessels that operated in international waters.