Cases within F

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  F&G Cleaners Ltd v Saddington and others [2012] IRLR 892 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Refusal to accept self-employed terms after TUPE transfer not a failure to mitigate loss

    Date:

    21 August 2012

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that two claimants did not fail to mitigate their losses when they refused to accept self-employed terms offered by a transferee that refused to recognise the continuation of their employment under TUPE.

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  Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler and others [1986] IRLR 69 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: When employee competition is lawful

    Date:

    4 February 1986

    In Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler and others the Court of Appeal upholds the High Court's ruling that, in the absence of a restrictive covenant, a company's former employees were free to make use of their knowledge of that company's customers and pricing structure while working for a competitor, thereby enabling them to solicit trade from their former employer's customers.

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  Fahey v Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust EAT/0391/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 July 2012

    Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamatenios are partners and Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Fairbank v Royal Mail Group Ltd ET/2412403/09 & ET/2412403/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Female Royal Mail manager bullied by male subordinates

    Date:

    28 July 2011

    This case is an example of a common scenario for employers that operate in male-dominated environments: a challenge to the authority of a female manager by a group of male employees who are not used to being managed by a woman.

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  Fairchild (administratrix of Fairchild) v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd and others [2002] IRLR 129 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Mesothelioma ruling reveals a "major injustice"

    Date:

    1 March 2002

    In Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd and others, and other appeals, the Court of Appeal holds that mesothelioma sufferers who were exposed to asbestos by more than one employer should in future be denied compensation.

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  Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd and others [2002] IRLR 533 HL (7 reports relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 September 2002

    Our resident experts at Pinsent Curtis Biddle bring you a comprehensive update on all the latest decisions that could affect your organisation, and advice on what to do about them.

  • Employer's liability: Successive employers were jointly liable for materially increasing risk of employees' disease

    Date:

    1 August 2002

    In Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd and others, and related cases, the House of Lords holds that, where it is established that successive employers had each failed in their duty of care to protect an employee from contracting a disease during his or her employment with them, but it cannot be proved which particular employment had caused the damage complained of, each employer could be held liable in damages for the breach.

  • House of Lords victory for asbestosis victims

    Date:

    8 July 2002

    The House of Lords has overturned the Court of Appeal decision last December in the test cases of Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd and related cases.

  • Legal casebook: Causation and asbestos

    Date:

    1 July 2002

    An explanation of employers' liability in cases of employee illnesses contracted through exposure to asbestos.

  • When the dust settles

    Date:

    1 July 2002

    The Law Lords have re-opened the door to compensation claims for asbestos-related disease. But how far-reaching will the ruling be?

  • Asbestos compensation

    Date:

    1 July 2002

    Earlier reports that the floodgates for litigation would open following the Law Lords' ruling on victims of mesothelioma may well prove to have been exaggerated.

  • House of Lords averts major asbestos "injustice"

    Date:

    1 June 2002

    The House of Lords has reversed what the Court of Appeal called a "major injustice" to mesothelioma victims. The ruling, on 16 May, means that victims of this fatal asbestos-induced disease are, after all, eligible for compensation from their former employers.

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  Fairfield Ltd v Skinner [1993] IRLR 4 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Fairfield Ltd v Skinner

    Date:

    1 January 1993

    In Fairfield Ltd v Skinner [1993] IRLR 4 EAT, the EAT held that there must be justification for making a deduction from wages, even when authority has been given in the contract.

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  Fairhurst Ward Abbotts Ltd v Botes Building Ltd [2004] IRLR 304 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Fairhurst Ward Abbotts Ltd v Botes Building Ltd and others

    Date:

    1 April 2004

    In Fairhurst Ward Abbotts Ltd v Botes Building Ltd and others [2004] IRLR 304 CA, the Court of Appeal held that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 apply to part of an undertaking, even if the part transferred had not been an identifiable, stable economic entity prior to the transfer.

  • Case round up

    Date:

    1 March 2004

    Our resident experts at Pinsents bring you a comprehensive update on all the latest decisions that could affect your organisation, and advice on what to do about them.

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  Fairhurst Ward Abbotts Ltd v Botes Building Ltd and others [2003] All ER (D) 418 (Mar) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Severed part of undertaking is economic entity capable of transfer

    Date:

    3 October 2003

    In Fairhurst Ward Abbots Ltd v (1) Botes Building Ltd; (2) Mr K Vaughan and others, the EAT holds that a contract to provide building services, which was split up and put out to tender as two separate contracts when it was due to be renewed, became two separate economic entities capable of transfer under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981.

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  Faithorn Farrell Timms LLP v Bailey [2016] IRLR 839 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Workplace protected conversations shield cannot be waived

    Date:

    16 September 2016

    In DLA Piper's latest case report, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) confirmed the privilege that applies to protected conversations cannot be waived and extends not only to the content of those protected conversations, but also to the fact of the conversations taking place.