House of Lords rules on dismissal damages

This report relates to 2 case(s)

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  Dunnachie v Kingston-Upon-Hull City Council [2004] IRLR 727 HL (1 other report)

  • Compensation: No non-economic loss awards in unfair dismissal compensation

    Date:

    24 September 2004

    In Dunnachie v Kingston-upon-Hull City Council, the House of Lords holds that Lord Hoffman's comments in Johnson were obiter and, therefore, did not prevent the House of Lords from finding that unfair dismissal compensation should be restricted to economic losses only.

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  Eastwood and another v Magnox Electric plc; McCabe v Cornwall County Council and others [2004] IRLR 733 HL (1 other report)

  • Damages: Pre-dismissal psychiatric injury claims can proceed

    Date:

    24 September 2004

    In Eastwood and another v Magnox Electric plc; McCabe v Cornwall County Council and others, the House of Lords holds that, in cases where psychiatric injury is alleged to have been caused by acts of the employer committed prior to, and separately from the act of dismissal itself, a cause of action will exist at common law for damages.