We look at four employment tribunal cases in which the claimants successfully argued that the mishandling of the disciplinary process rendered their dismissals unfair.
In Rentplus UK Ltd v Coulson, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that an employer cannot escape the requirements of the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures" by disguising a dismissal for misconduct or poor performance as a redundancy.
We look at four recent discrimination cases where the tribunals upheld the claims and ordered the employers to pay compensation, including one of the highest ever discrimination awards.
In Slade and another v Biggs and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the tribunal had been entitled to apply the 25% Acas uplift to the awards for aggravated damages and injury to feelings, given its findings of serious pregnancy discrimination.