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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
Whyte v London Borough of Lewisham - incapacity benefit deductable from compensation
Wood v Fonds de garantie des victimes des actes de terrorisme et d'autres infractions - nationality cannot justify refusal to award compensation - ECJ Case C164/07 5.6.08
Women and Equalities Committee report on trans people
WM Morrisons Supermarket Plc v Kessab - Polkey can still apply where there is substantial and procedural unfairness
White (Lloyds syndicate 0218) v Greensand Homes Ltd and BSF Consulting Engineers Ltd - the overriding objective - CA on 28.6.07
Ward Brothers (Malton) Ltd v Middleton & Ors - appointment necessary before insolvency practitioner can be said to be supervising
Ward v Ashkenazi - amount of compensatory award for automatically unfair dismissal
W Brewin & Co Ltd v Marvin - tribunal was entitled to find selection for redundancy unfair
Walker v United Kingdom - UK NIC's and sex discrimination - ECtHR 22.8.06
Wang v University Of Keele - does notice run from the very moment it is received, or some later point in time?
Welsh National Opera Ltd v Johnston - misconstruction of contract led to serious error in finding dismissal was reasonable and fair
Wacha v Lewis & Another - tribunal failed to explain why it did not award uplift in compensation
World of Home Improvements Ltd v J Cooper-Frewer (Debarred) - rare example of fresh evidence allowed on appeal
Wardle v Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank - compensation for career long losses is not generally appropriate
Winner Wetten GmbH v Bürgermeisterin der Stadt Bergheim - national court must not apply domestic law if it is contrary to EC law
Wiliams v Cater Link Ltd - no actual or apparent bias by employment judge who may have been friendly with one of the barristers
When can religious organisations discriminate? - BHA website 4.12.07
Williams v Lishman, Sidwell, Campbell & Price Ltd - limitation period in case of deliberate concealment
Waltham Forest NHS Primary Care Trust & Anor v Malik, R. (On the application of) - Court of Appeal 28.3.07
White v Burton's Foods Ltd - Equal Pay and "same employment"