Employment tribunals and courts

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• Date:

  22 August 2016

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Tribunal remedies round-up: discrimination arising from disability

  We round up three recent employment tribunal awards for discrimination arising from disability under the Equality Act 2010. The compensation awarded in these three cases totals over £25,000.

• Date:

  17 August 2016

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employment tribunal awards damages of one month's salary where job offer withdrawn

  An employment tribunal has awarded a claimant damages for breach of contract where he verbally accepted a job offer made by the employment agency acting for the employer, and the employer subsequently withdrew the offer.

• Date:

  1 July 2016

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  David Malamatenios is partner at Colman Coyle Solicitors. He rounds up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  29 June 2016

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Acas code does not extend to dismissal for breakdown in working relationships

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures" does not apply to dismissals for some other substantial reason (SOSR) due to a breakdown in working relationships.

• Date:

  24 June 2016

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Equal pay: no power to stay proceedings to compel transfer of jurisdiction

  The Court of Appeal has ruled that the employment tribunal has no power to stay proceedings indefinitely for the purpose of compelling the claimants to bring a new action in the High Court.

• Date:

  17 June 2016

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  £69,484 costs order after NHS trust was sent covert recording of meeting with lawyers

  In this unusual case, an employment tribunal struck out four claimants' cases and ordered them to pay £17,371 each in costs after the respondent NHS trust's chief executive and lawyers were sent a covert recording of the trust receiving legal advice.

• Date:

  1 June 2016

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Compensation: employer failing to provide rest breaks not liable for injury to feelings

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has considered if a tribunal can award compensation to an employee for injury to feelings where the employer fails to provide 20-minute rest breaks in breach of the Working Time Regulations 1998.

• Date:

  1 April 2016

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Lauren Evans, Iain Naylor, David Rintoul, Lucy Sorell and Rachael Wake are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  1 March 2016

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  David Malamatenios is a partner in the employment department at Colman Coyle Solicitors. He rounds up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  27 January 2016

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Amanda Steadman is a professional support lawyer, Iain Naylor, Lucy Sorell and Rachael Wake are associates, and Jessica-Alice Curtis is a trainee solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.