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  Walker v Wabco Automotive UK Ltd 11 May 1999 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employer cleared of vibration-CTS "knowledge"

    Date:

    1 October 1999

    In Walker v Wabco Automotive UK Ltd, the Court of Appeal overturns damages awarded to a woman for a work-related upper-limb disorder after it finds that her employers could not have been expected to anticipate that the use of vibrating tools could lead to carpal tunnel syndrome.

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  Walkingshaw v The John Martin Group [2001] ET/S/401126/00 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 January 2002

    Hilary Slater, consultant with Cobbetts solicitors, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

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  Wall v British Compressed Air Society [2004] IRLR 147 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Wall v British Compressed Air Society

    Date:

    1 February 2004

    In Wall v British Compressed Air Society [2004] IRLR 147 CA, the Court of Appeal held that an employee's contractual retirement age where he or she is the only employee in that position sets up a presumption that this is the normal retirement age.

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  Wallace Bogan & Co v Cove and others [1997] IRLR 453 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Restrictive covenants: No implied term against soliciting clients

    Date:

    15 October 1997

    In Wallace Bogan & Co Ltd v Cove and others, the Court of Appeal holds that, in the absence of express covenants in their contracts of employment, there was no implied term restraining solicitors from canvassing clients of their previous firm.

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  Wallace v C A Roofing Services Ltd [1996] IRLR 435 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Trainees: Apprentice cannot be dismissed for redundancy

    Date:

    15 June 1996

    An employer cannot terminate a "true" contract of apprenticeship before the fixed period of the apprenticeship expires solely on the ground of redundancy falling short of complete closure, or of a fundamental change in the character, of the employer's enterprise, holds the High Court in Wallace v CA Roofing Services Ltd.

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  Waller v (1) Horobin (2) Sirius Retail Television Ltd [2007] ET/2701349/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest: Harassment

    Date:

    1 May 2008

    Sue Johnstone, editor of Equal Opportunities Review, provides a round-up of some of the remedies that employment tribunals have awarded in harassment cases.

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  Wallington v Fairview New Homes plc EAT/633/92 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal remedies: Test for contributory conduct is probability not possibility

    Date:

    1 August 1994

    An industrial tribunal's finding that an unfairly dismissed employee "could well" have committed an act of misconduct was not sufficient for it to reduce his compensation on the grounds of contributory conduct, holds the EAT in Wallington v Fairview New Homes plc.

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  Walsh v Tewkesbury Borough Council ET/1404614/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Age discrimination: local authority employee's redundancy timed to avoid pension costs

    Date:

    14 September 2011

    In this decision, the employment tribunal was critical of a local authority that failed to keep an employee at risk of redundancy in employment for six more months during a transitional period. The decision had been taken to avoid a pension payout and constituted direct age discrimination and unfair dismissal.

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  Walters (t/a Rosewood) v Barik EAT/0053/16 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 June 2017

    Chris Cook is partner and Keely Rushmore senior associate at SA Law. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS Trust v Bewley [2008] IRLR 588 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Claimant cannot rely on hypothetical comparator

    Date:

    28 July 2008

    In Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS Trust v Bewley [2008] IRLR 588, the EAT held that the decision in Diocese of Hallam Trustee v Connaughton was fundamentally flawed and should not be followed.

  • Walton Centre for Neurology & Neuro Surgery NHS Trust v Bewley

    Date:

    30 May 2008

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that a previous EAT decision that a woman claiming equal pay could rely on her successor in the post as a comparator is incorrect.