All items: Tribunal and court procedure

• expand

  Local Government Yorkshire and Humber v Shah EAT/0587/11 & EAT/0026/12 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Acas code of practice: Uplift to compensation for failure to follow code not available to workers

    Date:

    23 January 2013

    In Local Government Yorkshire and Humber v Shah EAT/0587/11 & EAT/0026/12, the EAT held that the potential uplift in compensation awarded where an employer unreasonably fails to comply with the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures" applies only in the case of employees. A worker who was subjected to an unlawful detriment was not entitled to an uplift.

  • EAT holds workers are not entitled to compensation uplift where employer fails to comply with Acas code

    Date:

    6 September 2012

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that only employees, and not workers, can be awarded a compensation uplift of up to 25% where the respondent has unreasonably failed to comply with the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures". 

• expand

  R v Secretary of the Central Office of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales) ex parte Public Concern at Work [2000] IRLR 658 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employment tribunals: Extent of duty to place details of tribunal claims in public domain

    Date:

    15 August 2000

    In R v Secretary of the Central Office of the Employment Tribunals, ex parte Public Concern at Work, the High Court concludes that the particulars of an originating application (IT1) that the Secretary is generally required to enter in the public register must include: the applicant's and the respondent's names; the date the application was made and received; the relief sought; and a summary of each of the grounds of the claim sufficient to enable a member of the public exercising the right of inspection to identify the gist of those grounds.

• expand

  Thomas v Nationwide Building Society ET/1601342/14 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Early conciliation: employee's failure to comply did not prevent claim going ahead

    Date:

    18 November 2014

    In a case report from Blake Morgan, an employment tribunal found that an initial failure to follow the Acas early conciliation rules was not necessarily fatal to the claim being considered by the tribunal.

• expand

  Vaughan v London Borough of Lewisham and others (No.2) [2013] IRLR 713 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case of the week: Unmeritorious claimant ordered to pay around £60,000 in costs

    Date:

    31 July 2013

    In DLA Piper's case of the week, Vaughan v London Borough of Lewisham and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal approved the employment tribunal decision to require a claimant to pay around £60,000 in costs. This claimant had turned down a £95,000 settlement offer.