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R v Associated Octel Co Ltd [1997] IRLR 123 HL
(1 report relating to this case)
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- 1 January 1997
The liability of an employer for the acts or omissions of a contractor it engages is the central issue in R v Associated Octel Co Ltd. Both the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords have considered this important case, and both have ruled that an employer cannot delegate the duty imposed by s.3(1) of the HSW Act.
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R v Attorney General for Northern Ireland ex parte Burns [1999] IRLR 315 NIHC
(1 report relating to this case)
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- 1 May 1999
In R v Attorney General for Northern Ireland ex parte Burns [1999] IRLR 315 NIHCQB, Northern Ireland High Court, Queen's Bench Division held that that the failure of the Government to transpose the Working Time Directive in time was an actionable breach of Community law.
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R v British Coal Corporation and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ex parte Vardy and others [1993] IRLR 104 HC
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R v Central Arbitration Committee and another ex parte Kwik-Fit (GB) Ltd [2002] IRLR 395 CA
(1 report relating to this case)
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- 22 July 2002
In R v Central Arbitration Committee and another ex parte Kwik-Fit, the Court of Appeal holds that, in determining the "appropriate bargaining unit" for the purposes of statutory trade union recognition, the CAC must first consider the proposal put forward by the union and, if it finds this to be the appropriate bargaining unit, to go no further.
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R v Commission for Racial Equality ex parte Westminster City Council [1985] IRLR 426 CA
(1 report relating to this case)
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R v Rhône-Poulenc Rorer Ltd [1996] ICR 1054 CA
(1 report relating to this case)
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- 1 September 1996
In R v Rhône-Poulenc Rorer Ltd, the Court of Appeal rules that the requirement to provide some suitable physical means to prevent falls through fragile materials, as set out in the construction Regulations, is absolute.
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R v Secretary of State for Employment ex parte Seymour-Smith and Perez [1997] IRLR 315 HL
(1 report relating to this case)
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- 1 May 1997
In R v Secretary of State for Employment ex parte Seymour-Smith and Perez (13 March 1997) EOR73A, the House of Lords refers questions to the European Court of Justice relating to whether the increase in the qualifying period for bringing a complaint of unfair dismissal from one to two years indirectly discriminated against women contrary to European Community law.
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R v Securities and Futures Authority Ltd and another ex parte Fleurose [2002] IRLR 297 CA
(1 report relating to this case)
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- 24 June 2002
Disciplinary proceedings taken by the Securities and Futures Authority against a securities trader involved the "determination of his civil rights and obligations", but not the determination of "any criminal charge" within the meaning of article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, even though the proceedings could result in fines and a suspension, holds the Court of Appeal in R v Securities and Futures Authority Ltd and another ex parte Fleurose.
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R v Southampton Industrial Tribunal ex parte INS News Group Ltd and Express Newspapers plc [1995] IRLR 247 HC
(1 report relating to this case)
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- 1 June 1995
An industrial tribunal is not entitled to exclude members of the public (including the press) from the hearing of a sexual harassment case when the evidence to be given is of a sensitive or salacious nature, the Divisional Court has ruled in R v Southampton Industrial Tribunal ex parte INS News Group.
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R v The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum [1994] IRLR 25 CA
(1 report relating to this case)
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- 1 May 1993
"Risk" is interpreted in a wider sense to convey the possibility of danger, in R v The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum. The Court of Appeal thus upholds the decision of the Crown Court, and notes that a more restrictive definition of "actual danger" would result in "substantial emasculation" of a central part of the HSW Act.