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  • Date:
    15 December 1993
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Unfair dismissal remedies: Not practicable to re-engage Tilbury shop stewards

    When deciding whether to order the re-employment of an unfairly dismissed employee, an industrial tribunal only has to make a "provisional" determination or assessment on the practicability of the employer complying with such an order, holds the Court of Appeal in Port of London Authority v Payne and others.

  • Date:
    1 September 1993
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Compensation limit unlawful

    In Marshall v Southampton and South-West Hampshire Area Health Authority (No.2) (2 August 1993) EOR51A, the European Court of Justice rules that it is contrary to European Community law for a fixed upper limit to be placed on the compensation which can be awarded for the loss and damage suffered as a result of sex discrimination.

  • Date:
    1 July 1993
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Discrimination: Compensation cannot include exemplary damages

    An industrial tribunal has no power to award exemplary damages in a discrimination case, holds the EAT in Deane v London Borough of Ealing and another, following the ruling of the Court of Appeal in Gibbons and others v South West Water Services Ltd.

  • Date:
    22 March 1991
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Contracts of employment: Wrongful dismissal damages not reduced by UD award

    The Court of Appeal holds in O'Laoire v Jackel International Ltd that, unless it can be shown that an employee will recover twice for the same loss, damages for wrongful dismissal should not be reduced by the amount of compensation awarded by a tribunal in respect of unfair dismissal.

  • Date:
    5 October 1990
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Redundancy: Unfair redundancy dismissals - time limits and compensation

    An industrial tribunal was entitled to exercise its discretion to extend the time limit for unfair dismissal applications from redundant employees, who mistakenly believed that work would "pick up"; and they would be re-employed, until two weeks after the employer's business closed down.

  • Date:
    31 December 1948
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation

    In Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 233 CA, the Court of Appeal held that, when considering whether a local authority with unlimited powers has acted reasonably in the exercise of those powers, the court is entitled to investigate the action of the authority only with a view to seeing if it has taken into account any matters that ought not to have been taken into account or that ought to have been disregarded.

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