All items: Stress and depression

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  Barber v Somerset County Council [2004] IRLR 475 HL (6 reports relating to this case)

  • Case round up

    Date:

    1 June 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

  • Barber v Somerset County Council

    Date:

    1 June 2004

    In Barber v Somerset County Council [2004] IRLR 475 HL, the House of Lords held that the Court of Appeal had erred in allowing the employers' appeal against the finding of the judge in the County Court that the employers were liable for the claimant teacher's psychiatric illness brought about by the stresses and pressures of his workload.

  • Lords uphold Barber stress appeal

    Date:

    1 May 2004

    The House of Lords has upheld an appeal by former teacher Leon Alan Barber against a Court of Appeal decision in 2002 that quashed the damages he had been awarded for stress. The Lords awarded Barber £72,547.

  • Lords remind employers of stress duties

    Date:

    1 May 2004

    The House of Lords has overturned the decision in one of the four cases that made up the landmark Court of Appeal Sutherland judgment on work-related stress.

  • Lords' ruling means employers need to look for signs of stress

    Date:

    1 May 2004

    A landmark legal ruling by the House of Lords has put the onus on employers to keep up-to-date with what causes occupational stress and the effectiveness of any precautions they may take.

  • Case round-up: liability for stress; and contract workers

    Date:

    27 April 2004

    This week's case round-up by Eversheds, covering: employers' liability for work-related stress; and employment status of contract workers.

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  Barlow v Broxbourne Borough Council [2003] All ER (D) 208 (Jan) HC (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Case round-up: right to vary hours and wages and liability for stress-related illness

    Date:

    11 March 2003

    This week' s case round-up from Eversheds, covering: the right to vary hours and wages; and liability for stress-related illness.

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 March 2003

    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.

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  Bishop v Baker Refractories Ltd [2002] IRLR 263 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • On appeal: Equal pay, stress and clear covenants

    Date:

    30 April 2002

    Continuing our regular series on the implications of recent significant cases. Sue Nickson, partner and head of employment law at Hammond Suddards Edge, looks at the issues, including equal pay, stress and clear covenants.

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  Bonser v RJB Mining (UK) Ltd [2004] IRLR 164 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Bonsor v RJB Mining (UK) Ltd

    Date:

    1 February 2004

    In Bonsor v RJB Mining (UK) Ltd [2004] IRLR 164 CA, the Court of Appeal held that in order to recover compensation for psychiatric injury, a claimant must have shown sufficient signs that stress at work was likely to result in injury to their health.

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  Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust v Akinwunmi and others EAT/0345/16 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Dismissal for 20 months' unauthorised absence was unfair

    Date:

    6 July 2017

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that, on the particular facts, the employee's dismissal for 20 months' unauthorised absence was unfair.

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  Bristol City Council v Deadman [2007] IRLR 888 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Deadman v Bristol City Council

    Date:

    8 November 2007

    In Deadman v Bristol City Council [2007] EWCA Civ 822 CA, the Court of Appeal has held that an employer was not liable for personal injury caused to an employee by its failure to deal correctly with an allegation of harassment against him.

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 September 2007

    Judith Harris, professional support lawyer at Addleshaw Goddard, outlines the latest legal rulings.

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  Brown v London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames [2012] EWCA Civ 1384 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 December 2012

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

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  Cheltenham Borough Council v Laird [2009] IRLR 621 HC (3 reports relating to this case)

  • Pre-employment medical questionnaire: Employee had not made fraudulent or negligent misrepresentations about her health before appointment

    Date:

    8 September 2009

    In Cheltenham Borough Council v Laird [2009] IRLR 621 HC, the High Court dismissed claims that a former employee had fraudulently or negligently failed to disclose information about her health in a pre-employment questionnaire. She had answered the questions accurately and truthfully, and as a reasonable lay person with her medical history would have answered them.

  • Subjective answers are sufficient in health questionnaires, High Court rules

    Date:

    1 August 2009

    The High Court decision in Cheltenham Borough Council v Laird highlights the importance of both the wording of pre-employment health questionnaires and their administration.

  • Cheltenham Borough Council v Laird

    Date:

    18 June 2009

    The High Court has rejected an employer’s claim for damages for fraudulent or negligent misrepresentation against a director who failed to disclose a history of depression when she applied for a job.

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  Chief Adjudication Officer v Faulds [2000] 2 All ER 961 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Benefit scheme applicant must prove cause of stress

    Date:

    1 October 2000

    In Chief Adjudication Officer v Faulds, the House of Lords rules that an industrial injuries benefit claimant suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder arising from stressful employment must prove exactly what caused his injury.

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  Commissioner of Police v Stunt [2001] ICR 989 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disciplinary-related stress not pensionable injury

    Date:

    1 May 2001

    In Commissioner of Police v Stunt, the Court of Appeal has rejected a retired police officer's injury pension claim on the basis that his disabling depressive condition was caused not by his police duties but by the strain of undergoing disciplinary proceedings.