Haddon v Van den Bergh Foods Ltd [1999] IRLR 672 EAT

Unfair dismissal: Tribunal misapplied "range of reasonable responses test"

Date:

1 November 1999

In Haddon v Van den Bergh Foods Ltd, the EAT holds that an employment tribunal impermissibly applied what amounted to "a perversity test of reasonableness" by asking itself whether no reasonable employer would have dismissed in the circumstances of the case.