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Unfair dismissal: 'Reasonableness' requires consideration of the injustice caused to the employee

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    Greenwood v Whiteghyll Plastics Ltd EAT/0219/07 (0 other reports)

The EAT in Greenwood v Whiteghyll Plastics Ltd EAT/0219/07 held that, although third-party pressure can constitute "some other substantial reason" justifying dismissal, when dismissing an employee in response to complaints from a major client, the employer was not entitled to disregard the issue of injustice caused to the employee.