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- Date:
- 28 October 2009
- Type:
- Law reports
In Kulkarni v Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust and Secretary of State for Health [2009] IRLR 829 CA, the Court of Appeal held that NHS doctors subject to disciplinary proceedings are entitled to be represented at any disciplinary hearing by a qualified lawyer instructed by their medical protection organisation.
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- Date:
- 11 August 2009
- Type:
- Law reports
This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers legal representation.
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- Date:
- 24 July 2009
- Type:
- Law reports
The Court of Appeal has held that a doctor should be allowed to be accompanied by a lawyer at a disciplinary hearing in circumstances where he or she is facing charges that are of such gravity that, in the event they are proven, he or she will effectively be barred from employment in the NHS.
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- Date:
- 13 July 2009
- Type:
- Law reports
In R (on the application of G) v Governors of X School and Y City Council [2009] IRLR 434 HC, the High Court held that a teaching assistant faced with disciplinary proceedings that could have led to an indefinite prohibition against working with children was entitled to legal representation under art.6 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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- Date:
- 7 April 2009
- Type:
- Law reports
This week's case of the week, provided by Fox Williams, covers representation at disciplinary hearings.
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- Date:
- 20 March 2009
- Type:
- Law reports
The High Court has held that an employee should have been allowed to be accompanied by a lawyer at a disciplinary hearing in circumstances where a consequence of the hearing could be the addition of his name to the register of individuals deemed unsuitable to work with children.
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- Date:
- 23 February 2009
- Type:
- Law reports
In London Borough of Islington v Ladele EAT/0453/08, the EAT overturned the employment tribunal decision that a Christian registrar who was disciplined for refusing to undertake civil partnership duties was subjected to religious discrimination.
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- Date:
- 5 January 2009
- Type:
- Law reports
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a registrar who refused to conduct civil partnership ceremonies between same-sex couples on the grounds that to do so would violate her Christian beliefs was not discriminated against on the grounds of her religion.
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- Date:
- 30 May 2007
- Type:
- Law reports
In Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) v United Kingdom [2007] IRLR 361, a case of competing rights of association under art. 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, a trade union's right to expel a member of the BNP because his values conflicted fundamentally with its own outweighed the individual's right to membership of the union.
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- Date:
- 12 January 2007
- Type:
- Law reports
In Ali v Sovereign Buses (London) Ltd EAT/0274/06, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that the European Convention on Human Rights does not apply where an employee refuses to say anything at a disciplinary hearing, on the grounds that to do so might incriminate him or her in ongoing criminal proceedings.
