Case digest

This report relates to 7 case(s)

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  (1) James Murray & Co (Cupar) Ltd (2) The Scottish Provident Institution (Scottish Provident UK) v The Executors of the late Gary Soutar [2002] IRLR 22 EAT (0 other reports)
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  Apelogun-Gabriels v London Borough of Lambeth and another [2002] IRLR 116 CA (1 other report)

  • Procedure: No extension of time while grievance procedure is being used

    Date:

    15 May 2002

    The Court of Appeal in Apelogun-Gabriels v London Borough of Lambeth holds that there is no general principle that it will be just and equitable to extend time for bringing a tribunal claim where the applicant is using the employer's internal grievance procedure.

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  Bennett v Southwark London Borough Council [2002] IRLR 407 CA (1 other report)

  • Practice and procedure: Representative should have been given opportunity to withdraw offensive remarks

    Date:

    22 July 2002

    An employment tribunal should not have discharged itself from further participation in a race discrimination case after the complainant's black lay representative remarked, with no justification, that if he were a white barrister his application for an adjournment would not have been rejected, the Court of Appeal holds in Bennett v London Borough of Southwark.

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  Chief Constable of Bedfordshire v Liversidge [2002] IRLR 15 EAT (2 other reports)

  • Watch this space

    Date:

    1 October 2002

    A round up of recent significant case law.

  • Chief Constable not liable for acts of police officers

    Date:

    1 April 2002

    In The Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police v Liversidge, the EAT holds that a Chief Constable could not be vicariously liable for acts of race discrimination committed by one officer against another, under the Race Relations Act 1976 before it was amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000.

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  Chief Constable of the Bedfordshire Constabulary v Graham [2002] IRLR 239 EAT (2 other reports)

  • Derbyshire Police in the dock over high-level discrimination

    Date:

    1 September 2002

    A ruling against Derbyshire Police has clarified the rules on marriage discrimination and highlights the ways employers can fall foul of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.

  • Sex discrimination: Police chief should not have withdrawn job offer

    Date:

    28 January 2002

    In The Chief Constable of the Bedfordshire Constabulary v Graham, the EAT upholds an employment tribunal's decision that the Chief Constable discriminated indirectly against a female inspector on the grounds of her sex and marital status when he rescinded her appointment to the division commanded by her husband, a chief superintendent, on the grounds of a possible conflict of interest.

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  Hendricks v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [2002] All ER (D) 407 (Nov) EAT (2 other reports)

  • Chain of events

    Date:

    1 June 2002

    Arguments of institutional racism are being brought to the Employment Appeal Tribunal to bolster claims of discrimination under the Race Relations Act.

  • Discrimination: Individual incidents do not constitute a continuing act of discrimination

    Date:

    25 March 2002

    In Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police v Hendricks the EAT holds that for a practice or policy to constitute a continuing act of discrimination, there must be some consistent course of conduct.

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  Rothschild Asset Management Ltd v Ako [2002] IRLR 348 CA (3 other reports)

  • Cause of action estoppel: Reason for withdrawal relevant to question of estoppel

    Date:

    1 April 2002

    In Rothschild Asset Management Ltd v Ako, the Court of Appeal holds that cause of action estoppel did not arise to bar an employee commencing a further complaint of unfair dismissal and race discrimination when her previous application had been dismissed upon withdrawal in circumstances which were, in effect, a discontinuance of those previous proceedings rather than an abandonment of those earlier claims.

  • Cases in brief: dismissal, waiver clauses and tribunal procedure

    Date:

    1 April 2002

    A round up of recent cases, covering pregnancy dismissals, waiver clauses in fixed-term contracts and tribunal procedure.

  • On appeal

    Date:

    26 March 2002

    Continuing our regular series on the implications of recent significant cases. Gareth Brahams, senior solicitor at Lewis Silkin, looks at the issues.