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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
Saiger v North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust - exemplary damages are a punishment, not compensation.
Sladdin v Secretary of State - unsuitability to work with children can of itself establish unsuitability to work with vulnerable adults - Care Standards Tribunal - 9.2.08
Slevin v Premier Foods Group (t/a Hovis) - no perversity in health & safety dismissal decision
Secretary of State for Work & Pensions (Jobcentre Plus) v Higgins - importance of identifying the correct PCP
Southern v Wadacre Ltd (t/a Wadacre Farm Day Nursery) - (i) constructive dismissal
SoS for Trade and Industry v Carr & ors. - Chancery Division 10.8.06
SG & R Valuation Service Co v Boudrais & Ors - employee sent home on garden leave cannot claim repudiatory breach if he has made it impracticable for the employer to provide work - QBD 12.5.08
South Lanarkshire Council v Russell & ors - order by EJ alone following PHR before full tribunal is not valid
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Arnold & anor. - directors disqualification after automatic dissolution of company - High Court (Chancery Division) 10.8.07
Silvera v Bray Walker Solicitors (A Firm) & Ors - enforceability of conditional fee agreement
SW Global Resourcing Ltd v Docherty - changes to contract terms and "SOSR"
Single Homeless Project Ltd v Abu & Ors - ET errs in basing costs order simply on ability to pay
Smith v Churchills Stairlift Plc, Court of Appeal on 27th Oct 2005
Supreme Court equal pay case off as Sheffield settles
Singapore Medical Council, R (on the application of) v General Medical Council & Anor - Fitness to Practise - High Court (QBD) 21.12.06
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Scullion - cardiac arrest was not, in itself, an "accident" for industrial injuries benefit purposes
Scottish Ambulance Service v Laing - unless orders and consequence of failure to comply
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust v Crabtree - unfair dismissal and the burden of proof
Stringer and ors v HMRC, ECJ case C-350/06, 20.01.09
Seldon v Clarkson, Wright & Jakes (Equality & Human Rights Commission intervening) - appeal to Supreme Court