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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
Darnton v Bournemouth University - no overriding 3 month time limit for initial steps under Info & Consultation Regs
Darnton v Bournemouth University - employer must initiate negotiations under Information and Consultation Regulations 2004 "as soon as reasonably practical" - CAC on 5.11.08
Dow v. West Of Scotland Shipbreaking Company Ltd & Anor - asbestosis - Scottish Court of Session 5.4.07
Daleside Nursing Home Ltd v Mathew - lies and costs
Delay (Free movement of persons) - ECJ Case C-276/07 discrimination against workers from another EU member state - 15.05.08
Dean & Dean v Dionissiou-Moussaoui - written agreement cannot be re-written by court to achieve fairness
DWP v Yates [2009] EWCA Civ 479, Court of Appeal on 10th June 2009
Da Silva v Composite Mouldings & Design Ltd - a wide definition is to be given to the expression "associated employers" for continuity of employment purposes - EAT 18.8.08
Doshi, R (on the application of) v Southend-On-Sea Primary Care Trust - High Court (QBD) 3.5.07
Dooley v UCATT - no Polkey deduction where dismissal substantively unfair
Doherty (1) Jones (2) v SW Global Resourcing Ltd - dismissal in ignorance of that effect - fair or unfair?
Drysdale v Department Of Transport (The Maritime And Coastguard Agency) - ET need not satisfy itself as to Claimant's rep's capacity
Doogan & Wood, Re Judicial Review - midwives: human rights, religious beliefs, and termination of pregnancy
Drive Assist UK Ltd v Alderson - Polkey deduction is not a pure mathematical exercise
Deutsche Lufthansa AG v Kumpan - justifying the use of successive fixed-term contracts
Diggins v Condor Marine Crewing Services Ltd - EAT's decision that "peripatetic seaman" could claim unfair dismissal upheld
Dunedin Indpendent plc v Welsh - restrictive covenants - Court of Session [2006] CSOH 174 on 14.11.06
Drew v Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust - tribunal can choose a comparator of a different religion
Deman v The Commission for Equality and Human Rights & Ors - judge has power to dispense with assessors in designated County Court
Dansk Jurist- og Okonomforbund, v Indenrigs- og Sundhedsministeriet - Danish law in breach of Framework Directive