This decision from the Supreme Court, the highest court in the UK, is the leading decision on whether or not employers must allow employees the right to be accompanied by a lawyer at a disciplinary hearing.
Reports relating to this case:
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- Date:
- 27 February 2012
In R (on the application of G) v Governors of X School and Y City Council [2011] IRLR 756 SC, the Supreme Court held that a teaching assistant was not entitled to legal representation at a disciplinary hearing leading to dismissal, when the referral process that could lead to his appearance on a "barred list", which would end his ability to practise his profession, was entirely separate and distinct.
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- Date:
- 29 June 2011
The Supreme Court has held that it was not a breach of a teaching assistant's human rights to refuse him the right to be accompanied by a lawyer at a disciplinary hearing to address an allegation of acting inappropriately towards a pupil.
