All items: Human rights

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  A v Chief Constable of the West Yorkshire Police and another [2003] IRLR 32 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Transsexual discrimination: Post-operative male-to-female transsexual is a woman for employment law purposes

    Date:

    7 March 2003

    In A v Chief Constable of the West Yorkshire Police & anr, the Court of Appeal holds that, after the ECHR decision in Goodwin v UK, post-operative transsexuals are legally members of their chosen gender in the employment context, except where there exist significant factors of public interest which outweigh the interests of the individual applicant in obtaining legal recognition of his or her gender re-assignment.

  • Case round-up: gender reassignment and statutory minimum remuneration

    Date:

    26 November 2002

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering: gender reassignment and statutory minimum remuneration.

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  A v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police and another [2004] IRLR 573 HL (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Transsexual discrimination: Transsexual entitled to recognition of reassigned gender

    Date:

    2 July 2004

    In A v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police and another, the House of Lords holds that refusing to employ a post-operative male-to-female transsexual was an act of unlawful discrimination.

  • Case round-up: subject access requests regarding personal data; and discrimination against transsexuals

    Date:

    25 May 2004

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering: subject access requests regarding personal data; and discrimination against transsexuals.

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  A v Hounslow London BC [2001] All ER (D) 128 (Jul) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Risks of employing man with schizophrenia justified dismissal

    Date:

    17 December 2001

    In A v Hounslow, the EAT upholds a tribunal's decision that incalculable risks were presented by the employment of a man with schizophrenia as a laboratory technician at a school, in circumstances where he took no medication for his condition and had previously entertained fantasies of mass murder. The employer was justified in its decision to dismiss him upon the available information.

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  Ahmad v Inner London Education Authority [1977] ICR 490 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Ahmad v Inner London Education Authority

    Date:

    31 December 1977

    In Ahmad v Inner London Education Authority [1977] ICR 490 CA, the Court of Appeal held that the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion established by Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights does not entitle an employee to be absent from work for the purpose of religious worship in breach of contract.

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  Ahmad v UK [1982] 4 EHRR 126 ECHR (1 report relating to this case)

  • Ahmad v UK

    Date:

    31 December 1982

    In Ahmad v UK [1982] 4 EHRR 126 ECHR, the European Commission of Human Rights held that a local authority's refusal to allow Mr Ahmad time off work on Fridays to attend prayers at a mosque did not infringe his freedom of religion or his right to enjoy rights and freedoms without discrimination.

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  Ahmed and others v United Kingdom [1999] IRLR 188 ECHR (1 report relating to this case)

  • Ahmed and others v United Kingdom

    Date:

    1 March 1999

    In Ahmed and others v United Kingdom [1999] IRLR 188 ECHR, the European Court of Human Rights held that the Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) Regulations 1990 did not breach the European Convention on Human Rights, since the interference with the employees' rights had been shown to be 'prescribed by law', in pursuance of one or more legitimate aims within the meaning of Article 10(2) of the Convention and was 'necessary in a democratic society' to attain them.

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  Alemo-Herron and others v Parkwood Leisure Ltd [2009] IRLR 322 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  The conclusion of this case was that the European Court of Justice decided in Alemo-Herron and others v Parkwood Leisure Ltd Case C-426/11 ECJ that a transferee is not bound by "dynamic" clauses in contracts of employment referring to collective agreements negotiated after the transfer, where that transferee cannot participate in the negotiation process.

  • TUPE: Transferee bound by collective agreements negotiated post-transfer

    Date:

    9 June 2009

    In Alemo-Herron and others v Parkwood Leisure Ltd [2009] IRLR 322 EAT, the EAT held that employees transferred under TUPE were entitled to pay increases in accordance with the terms of a collective agreement incorporated into their contracts before the transfer, notwithstanding that the agreement was renegotiated and revised post-transfer, with the transferee playing no part in that process.

  • Case of the week: TUPE covers public sector collective deals

    Date:

    17 March 2009

    This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers TUPE transfers.

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  Ali v Sovereign Buses (London) Ltd EAT/0274/06 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Ali v Sovereign Buses (London) Ltd

    Date:

    12 January 2007

    In Ali v Sovereign Buses (London) Ltd EAT/0274/06, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that the European Convention on Human Rights does not apply where an employee refuses to say anything at a disciplinary hearing, on the grounds that to do so might incriminate him or her in ongoing criminal proceedings.

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  Andreou v Lord Chancellor's Department [2002] IRLR 728 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure: part 1

    Date:

    5 March 2004

    A review of recent significant cases on practice and procedure in the employment tribunals and the EAT.

  • On appeal: disability discrimination; tribunal adournments and confidentiality clauses

    Date:

    19 November 2002

    Continuing our series on the implications of recent significant cases, Gareth Brahams, a partner in the employment department at Lewis Silkin, looks at the issues surrounding some employment-related disputes. This week: disability discrimination; tribunal adournments; and confidentiality clauses.

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  Antovic and another v Montenegro 28 November 2017 ECHR (1 report relating to this case)

  • Human rights: CCTV surveillance in classes violated lecturers' right to privacy

    Date:

    11 January 2018

    In Antovic and another v Montenegro, the European Court of Human Rights held that overt camera surveillance in a university's lecture halls violated professors' right to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights.