All items: Respect for private and family life

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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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  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.

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  Barbulescu v Romania [2016] IRLR 235 ECHR (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Human rights: No breach of employee's human rights when private use of business messaging account monitored

    Date:

    19 March 2016

    In Barbulescu v Romania [2016] IRLR 235 ECHR, the European Court of Human Rights held that an employer did not breach its employee's human rights when it monitored his private use of a business messaging account.

  • Social media: monitoring employee's work-related Yahoo account was justified

    Date:

    19 January 2016

    In this Romanian case, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) accepted that the employee's right to a private life had been affected when his employer accessed his Yahoo messages. However, the ECHR went on to hold that the employer's actions were justified in the circumstances and not in breach of art. 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights.

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  Barbulescu v Romania [2017] IRLR 1032 ECHR (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Human rights: Dismissed employee's right to private life inadequately protected by the courts hearing his dismissal challenge

    Date:

    31 December 2017

    In Barbulescu v Romania [2017] IRLR 1032 ECHR, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights held that the Romanian courts failed to afford adequate protection to the art.8 rights of an employee who sought to challenge his dismissal following a monitoring exercise by his employer.

  • Monitoring work-related Yahoo account breached employee's human rights

    Date:

    6 September 2017

    In this Romanian case, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has held that monitoring the employee's private use of a business messaging account amounted to a breach of his right to private life and correspondence under art.8.

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  Black and another v Wilkinson [2013] EWCA Civ 820 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case of the week: Court of Appeal finds B&B's refusal to accommodate gay couple to be unlawful

    Date:

    9 October 2013

    In DLA Piper's case of the week, Black and another v Wilkinson, the Court of Appeal upheld a decision that a B&B owner's refusal to provide accommodation to a gay couple was discriminatory.

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  Brumfitt v Ministry of Defence and another [2005] IRLR 4 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Harassment: Actual or hypothetical comparator required in harassment cases

    Date:

    11 March 2005

    In Brumfitt v Ministry of Defence and another, the EAT holds that in all cases of direct sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, a male comparator, whether actual or hypothetical, is required.

  • Case round up

    Date:

    1 March 2005

    Sally Logan and Polly Meudell of Addleshaw Goddard bring you comprehensive update on the latest decisions that could affect your organisation and provide advice on what to do about them.

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  Chairman and Governors of Amwell View School v Dogherty [2007] IRLR 198 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Covert recordings of disciplinary panel's private deliberations inadmissible

    Date:

    19 January 2007

    In Chairman and Governors of Amwell View School v Dogherty EAT/0243/06, the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that an employment tribunal was not entitled to admit as evidence in unfair dismissal proceedings recordings of a disciplinary panel's private deliberations.

  • Case round-up: Recording of disciplinary hearings

    Date:

    3 October 2006

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering recording of disciplinary hearings.

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  Crisp v Apple Retail (UK) Ltd ET/1500258/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Apple's dismissal of employee for adverse Facebook comments not unfair or breach of human rights

    Date:

    22 January 2011

    In this case, one of the world's most prominent consumer technology companies, Apple, used its policies and procedures to dismiss fairly an employee who had made several Facebook posts that it considered could damage its reputation.