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  • Date:
    24 February 2010
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Sex discrimination: Requirement for male trainee police officer to cut his hair not discriminatory

    In Dansie v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis EAT/0234/09, the EAT held that a police force did not treat a male trainee officer less favourably on grounds of sex by requiring him to have his hair cut, when the same requirement would not have been demanded of a female officer with a similar hairstyle.

  • Date:
    14 January 2010
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Chief Constable of Lincolnshire Police v Caston

    The Court of Appeal has criticised an employment tribunal’s suggestion that tribunals should adopt a “liberal” approach when considering whether or not to extend the time limit for lodging a claim.

  • Date:
    1 September 2009
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders Police v Cumming

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a special constable's inability to meet the physical requirements to become a regular constable is not an adverse effect on her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities when deciding whether or not she is disabled.

  • Date:
    12 November 2008
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Blackburn and another v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police

    The Court of Appeal has held that paying bonuses to employees who worked night shifts did not constitute sex discrimination.

  • Date:
    11 August 2008
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Race discrimination: Entries in notebooks about officer's conduct did not subject him to a detriment

    In Bayode v The Chief Constable of Derbyshire EAT/0499/07, the EAT held that, where alleged less favourable treatment consisted of accurate written records made by colleagues in their personal notebooks about aspects of a black police officer's behaviour that were of concern to them, the employment tribunal was entitled to find on the facts that the officer had no justified sense of grievance about the making of the entries and therefore had not suffered any detriment.

  • Date:
    22 October 2004
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Employment tribunal jurisdiction: Judicial immunity for Police Disciplinary Board proceedings

    In Heath v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis, the Court of Appeal holds that proceedings before a Police Disciplinary Board are judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings to which the rule of immunity from suit attaches.

  • Date:
    31 December 2001
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Kuddus v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary

    In Kuddus v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary [2001] UKHL 29, the House of Lords allowed an appeal against a strike out of a claim for exemplary damages for the tort of misfeasance. It held that exemplary damages were not restricted to causes of action for which exemplary damages had been awarded prior to 1964. The House of Lords did not expressly decide whether exemplary damages should be available in discrimination cases.

  • Date:
    31 December 2001
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Ashton v Chief Constable of West Mercia Constabulary

    In Ashton v Chief Constable of West Mercia Constabulary [2001] ICR 67 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld an employment tribunal's decision that a male to female transsexual dismissed due to poor performance had not been discriminated against on grounds of sex, although the poor performance was linked to the side effects of medical treatment for gender reassignment. It also upheld a finding that the employee was not disabled within the meaning in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

  • Date:
    31 December 1995
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Malcolm v Metropolitan Police Commissioners

    In Malcolm v Metropolitan Police Commissioners 1995 5 CLR 368 HC, the High Court held that the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, regulation 5 creates an absolute statutory duty and proof that a defect in equipment had caused an accident would fix the duty holder with civil liability.

  • Date:
    1 November 1995
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    No liability for victimisation

    In Waters v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (14 February 1995) EOR64B, the EAT rules that an employer could not be not liable for victimising an employee who alleged that she was sexually harassed by a work colleague, where the alleged harassment was not committed in the course of employment.

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  • Police Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/527)
  • Police (Conduct) Regulations 2012 (2012/2632)
  • Police (Performance) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/2631)