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Corner v Buckinghamshire County Council [1978] IRLR 320 EAT (1 report relating to this case)
- Time off for public duties: Tribunals have no power to impose conditions on the parties
  
  Date:
  
  12 July 1978
  
  In Corner v Buckinghamshire County Council, a time off for public duties case, the EAT holds the Industrial Tribunal can do no more than declare that the employer had failed to allow the employee to take reasonable time off and, if appropriate, make an award of compensation.
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Ratcliffe v Dorset County Council [1978] IRLR 191 IT (1 report relating to this case)
- Time off for public duties: Swapping time around is not giving time off
  
  Date:
  
  24 May 1978
  
  In Ratcliffe v Dorset County Council the Industrial Tribunal points out that the right to time off for public duties refers to time off during working hours. If an employee is required to make up, in what would otherwise have been his own time, the work that he missed when he was granted time off, that is not in compliance with his statutory rights.
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Riley-Williams v Argos Ltd 29 May 2003 EAT (1 report relating to this case)
- Case round-up: dismissal for gross misconduct; and reasonable time off for public duties
  
  Date:
  
  1 July 2003
  
  This week's case round-up by Eversheds, covering: dismissal for gross misconduct; and reasonable time off work for public duties.
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RJ Emmerson v Commissioners of Inland Revenue [1977] IRLR 458 IT (1 report relating to this case)
- RJ Emmerson v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
  
  Date:
  
  1 December 1977
  
  In RJ Emmerson v Commissioners of Inland Revenue [1977] IRLR 458 IT, the Industrial Tribunal held that the employer had acted unreasonably in imposing an annual upper limit of 18 days on the time off allowed to an employee who was a local authority councillor. A more appropriate period, said the tribunal, would have been 30 days.

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