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ICTS (UK) Ltd v Tchoula [2000] IRLR 643 EAT (1 other report)
- EAT gives guidance on injury to feelings
  
  Date:
  
  1 September 2000
  
  In ICTS (UK) Ltd v Tchoula the EAT has found that an award of £27,000 for injury to feelings, including aggravated damages, to a black man who was found to have been dismissed because he had made allegations of race discrimination was so excessive as to amount to an error of law.
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Johnson v Unisys Ltd [2001] IRLR 279 HL (1 other report)
- Damages: No common law remedy for financial loss flowing from manner of dismissal
  
  Date:
  
  1 May 2001
  
  There is no common law contractual remedy for financial or other loss allegedly flowing from the manner or circumstances of an employee's dismissal, holds the House of Lords in Johnson v Unisys Ltd.
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Sheriff v Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd [1999] IRLR 481 CA (1 other report)
- Race discrimination: Damages for personal injury may be awarded under Race Relations Act
  
  Date:
  
  15 September 1999
  
  Employment tribunals have jurisdiction to award compensation for the statutory tort of unlawful racial discrimination under the Race Relations Act, including damages for physical or psychiatric injury caused by the tort, holds the Court of Appeal in Sheriff v Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd.

Tribunals are coming down heavily on employers who fail to follow procedure and act unreasonably in disputes by making hefty awards. Through a series of fictional but familiar tales, Pauline Matthews analyses recent developments.

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Serious damages

EAT gives guidance on injury to feelings

Damages: No common law remedy for financial loss flowing from manner of dismissal

Race discrimination: Damages for personal injury may be awarded under Race Relations Act

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