All items: Time limits

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  Agrico UK Limited v Ireland EATS/0024/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Agrico UK Limited v Ireland

    Date:

    1 November 2005

    In Agrico UK Limited v Ireland EATS/0024/05, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employment tribunal was wrong to conclude that it was not reasonably practical for Ms Ireland to have presented her unfair dismissal claim within the three-month time period.

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  Ashcroft v Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School [2008] IRLR 375 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Time limits: Not reasonably practicable for claim to be presented in time

    Date:

    28 April 2008

    In Ashcroft v Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School [2008] IRLR 375, the EAT held that an employee who learnt the outcome of his appeal against dismissal only six hours before the expiry of the normal three-month time limit for bringing a tribunal claim was entitled to an extension of time.

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  Barry Controls Ltd v Lawes [2001] All ER (D) 266 (Jul) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    5 August 2002

    A round-up of recent noteworthy decisions on practice and procedure in the employment tribunals and the EAT.

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  Barry v Caledonian International Book Manufacturing Ltd EAT/685/99 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure 1: Time limits, directions and settlement

    Date:

    15 March 2000

    This is the first of two articles rounding up recent case law on employment tribunal and EAT practice and procedure.

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  Biggs v Somerset County Council [1995] IRLR 452 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • EAT limits retrospective claims

    Date:

    1 September 1995

    In Biggs v Somerset County Council (6 July 1995) EOR63B, the EAT rules that a part-time worker dismissed in 1976 was time-barred from bringing an unfair dismissal complaint in 1994 shortly after the decision of the House of Lords that the hours per week qualifying condition under UK law was contrary to European Community law.

  • Sex discrimination: Part-timer's dismissal complaint out of time

    Date:

    1 August 1995

    In Biggs v Somerset County Council, the EAT holds that an industrial tribunal has no jurisdiction to hear a part-timer's claim for compensation for unfair dismissal brought shortly after the House of Lords' decision in R v Secretary of State for Employment ex parte Equal Opportunities Commission in March 1994, in respect of a dismissal which took place 18 years previously.

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  Biggs v Somerset County Council [1996] IRLR 203 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Time limit on retrospective claims

    Date:

    1 May 1996

    In Biggs v Somerset County Council (26 January 1996) EOR67A, the Court of Appeal holds that it was "reasonably practicable" for a part-time employee to have brought an unfair dismissal complaint within the requisite three months from her dismissal in 1976, notwithstanding that she was excluded under UK law by reason that she worked insufficient hours.

  • Sex discrimination: Feasible for part-timer to claim unfair dismissal in 1976

    Date:

    1 March 1996

    It was "reasonably practicable" for a part-time employee dismissed in 1976, who complained of unfair dismissal 18 years later, to have done so within three months of her dismissal, holds the Court of Appeal in Biggs v Somerset County Council.

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  Bone v Fabcon Projects Ltd [2006] IRLR 908 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure round-up

    Date:

    16 February 2007

    A review of recent significant cases on practice and procedure in the EAT and the Court of Appeal.

  • Case round-up: Tribunal time limits

    Date:

    22 August 2006

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering tribunal time limits.

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  British School of Motoring v Fowler EAT/0059/06 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up: Time limits

    Date:

    18 April 2006

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering time limits.

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  BUPA Care Homes (BNH) Ltd v Cann; Spillett v Tesco Stores Ltd [2006] IRLR 248 EAT (3 reports relating to this case)

  • Tribunal practice and procedure: Discretion to extend time unaffected by statutory grievance procedure

    Date:

    23 June 2006

    In BUPA Care Homes (BHN) Ltd v Cann; Spillett v Tesco Stores Ltd [2006] IRLR 248 EAT the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that an employment tribunal may exercise its discretion to hear a discrimination complaint where the step-one grievance was submitted more than four months after the act of discrimination complained of.

  • Discretion on time limits not restricted

    Date:

    1 April 2006

    In the joined cases of BUPA Care Homes (BHN) Ltd v Cann and Spillett v Tesco plc (22 February 2006), the EAT clarifies an important point of interpretation and holds that the tribunal's power to extend the time limit for submitting a claim of discrimination is not restricted by the time limit relating to the statutory grievance procedures.

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 April 2006

    Joe Glavina, of Addleshaw Goddard outlines the latest legal rulings and explains what you need to do to avoid tribunals.

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  Camden & Islington Community Services NHS Trust v Kennedy [1996] IRLR 381 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Time limit: Solicitors' stringent duty to ensure compliance with time limit

    Date:

    15 August 1996

    A solicitor who posted a client's unfair dismissal complaint several days before expiry of the three-month time limit, but did not check whether the document had arrived at the tribunal office until a month after the time limit had expired, acted unreasonably, holds the EAT in Camden & Islington Community Services NHS Trust v Kennedy.