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Case Summaries

This section contains 100’s of professionally prepared case summaries relevant to employment law. They report decisions from the tribunals and courts of the UK and Europe and are updated as important new cases arise.

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Title Case Date
Booth v United Kingdom - widow's pension and sex discrimination
Boots Management Services Ltd, R (On the Application Of) v The Central Arbitration Committee - union's application for recognition fails
Bootsmann v GSCC - Care Standards Tribunal 17.7.07
Boras Topic v Hollyland Pitta Bakery and others - costs
Borger v Tiroler Gebietskrankenkasse - social security benefits, "workers", and the irrelevance of an employment relationship
Borrer v Cardinal Security Ltd - zero hours contracts must be explicitly that
Bosmann v Bundesagentur für Arbeit Familienkasse Aachen - rules to avoid duplication of benefits by member states do not prevent state of residence paying child benefit - ECJ Case 352/06 - 20.5.08
Bosses banned over crash deaths - Wiltshire Gazette and Herald 23.5.07
Bosses manipulated manager into quitting
Botham v The Ministry of Defence - High Court claim could not be used to recover costs of ET unfair dismissal proceedings
Bottomley & Others v Wakefield District Housing - where the TUPE regulations apply a grievance can meet the minimum statutory requirements if it is addressed to the transferor rather than transferee employer - EAT 8.1.08
Bourne v ECT Bus CIC - disability: eight hours spent driving a bus is not a "normal day-to-day activity"
Bournemouth Borough Council v Leadbeater - extension of time request in application to set aside default judgment can be implied
Bournemouth University v Buckland - finding fundamental breach in constructive dismissal does not involve "range of reasonable responses" test
Bowater & ors v NIS Signs Ltd (in liquidation) & ors - TUPE exemption applied where company was in liquidation, even where that was "engineered"
Bowen v Millbank Estate Management Organisation - unfair disciplinary procedure - EAT 23.3.07
Bowers v William Hill Organisation Ltd - question of long-term effect, substantial impact etc are irrelevant once disability is conceded
Bowyer v Siemens - compensation for unfair dismissal when an employee's entitlement would otherwise be above the statutory cap.
Boyd v Renfrewshire Council - given findings of fact, tribunal's decision was not one that no reasonable tribunal could have reached - Court of Session 11.6.08
Bozeat-Manzi v Telefonica UK Ltd - Prejudice must be considered in a just and equitable extension