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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
Pohl (Judgment of the Court) - EU rules that 30 year limitation period is permissible
Pola v The Crown (HSE), [2009] EWCA Crim 655 - a casual worker can be an employee for Health & Safety purposes
Police Federation v Home Department & Government Actuary's Dept [2009] EWHC 488 (Admin) - pension commutation factors for retiring police officers
Police Federation of England and Wales v Home Office & Government Actuary's Department - police win judicial review re pensions
Pontin v T-Comalux SA - fairness of time limits for a pregnant worker to bring a claim for, in effect, unfair dismissal
Popa v Price Waterhouse Coopers LLP & Others - no basis to extend appeal time limit
Porter v HMRC - [2005] UKSPC, 7/09/2005 - tax on share option profit on termination of employment - first £30K exempt on particular facts
Portnykh v Nomura International Plc
Pothecary Witham Weld (1) Hawthorne (2) v (1) Bullimore (2) Sebastians Solicitors - reversal of the burden of proof in victimisation cases
Power v Greater Manchester Police Authority - dismissal was not due to religious beliefs themselves, but how they were manifested
Power v Greater Manchester Police Authority - no breach of right to fair trial where respondent chooses not to call decision maker as witness
Powerhouse Retail Ltd & Ors v. Burroughs & Ors (HL) - equal pay and occupational pension scheme - House of Lords, 8th March 2006.
Practice Direction stays agency worker cases - Employment Tribunals 15.11.07
Premier Groundworks Ltd v Jozsa - right to delegate meant an individual was not a "worker" for WTR purposes
Pressure Coolers Ltd v Molloy & Others - insolvent employers, pre-pack administrations, TUPE transfers, and liability for employee's losses
Prest & Others v (1) Mouchel Business Services Ltd (2) Middlesbrough BC - [2011] UKEAT/0604/10/DA
Price v Commissioners for Revenue & Customs - constructive unfair dismissal, findamental breach, and the relevance of "reasonableness".
Price v Conseil des ventes volontaires de meubles aux enchères publiques - recognition of professional qualifications - ECJ Case C-149/05, 7.9.06
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP v Popa (debarred) - victimisation claims after employment has ended
Prigge v Deutsche Lufthansa AG - disproportionate, and so unlawful, to automatically retire commercial pilots at age 60