LIST OF CASES / Skyrail Oceanic ta Goodmos Tours v Coleman 1981

[1981] ICR 864, CA and [1980] IRLR 226

NOTES

Skyrail Oceanic Ltd v Coleman [1981] ICR 864, CA (1981 July 7, 8, 9; 24 - Lawton and Shaw L.JJ. and Sir David Cairns).

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Authority for the proposition that:-

a substantial award of compensation for injury to feelings in a dismissal/discrimination case should be made only if the injury to feelings resulted from the employee's knowledge that it was an act of sex discrimination that had brought about the dismissal.

editor's note: this decision is probably no longer good law - see Sheriff v Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd 1999 ICR 1170, CA, Essa v Laing Ltd CA 2004 ICR 746 and Taylor v XLN Telecom Ltd & Ors, EAT on 9th November 2009

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