Dismissal in UK Law

  • Wong v Igen Ltd (formerly Leeds Careers Guidance) and Others; Emokpae v Chamberlin Solicitors and another; Webster v Brunel University
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 February 2005
    ... ... It is true that in the disciplinary procedure, as set out in the Handbook, relegation or transfer is an option as an alternative to dismissal after a full formal Disciplinary Hearing has taken place. No such disciplinary hearing had, of course, taken place. Ms Greene then suggested that the ... ...
  • Western Excavating (ECC) Ltd v Sharp
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 November 1977
    ... ... He left of his own accord. Yet he has been awarded 658 as compensation for unfair dismissal. There seems something wrong about that award. What is it? To fill in the details, he started work with the Company on 9th July, 1974. One of the ... ...
  • Shamoon v Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
    • House of Lords
    • 27 February 2003
    ... ... 4 Thus, where the act complained of consists of dismissal from employment, the statutory definition calls for a comparison between the way the employer treated the claimant woman (dismissal) and the way he ... ...
  • Polkey v A. E. Dayton Services Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 19 November 1987
    ... ... Some four weeks after the appellant's dismissal a second van salesman was appointed from outside the employers' work-force. On 20 August the appellant's branch manager informed his superior of his ... ...
  • Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd v Hitt
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 October 2002
    ... ... 4 Sainsburys denied unfair dismissal. Their case, as appears from their notice of appearance, was that there was a suspected theft of a box of razor blades from Mr Hitt's place of work ... ...
  • Foley v Post Office; HSBC Bank Plc (formerly Midland Bank Plc) v Madden
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 July 2000
    ... ... these two appeals in view of the current state of uncertainty in the Employment Tribunals on some fundamental aspects of the law of unfair dismissal following two recent decisions of the Employment Appeal Tribunal: Haddon v Van Den Bergh Foods Ltd [1999] ICR 1150 (" Haddon "), which has been ... ...
  • Palmer v Southend-on-Sea Borough Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 January 1984
    ... ... This is one more in the line of cases concerned with the time limit imposed by the relevant legislation for presenting complaints of unfair dismissal to an industrial tribunal ... 2 The present statutory provisions are contained in section 67 of the Employment Protection ... ...
  • Taylor v OCS Group Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 May 2006
    ... ... He appealed against his dismissal, and there was another hearing at which the employee was represented. A sign language interpreter was provided for most, although not all, of the ... ...
  • Hewage v Grampian Health Board
    • Supreme Court (Scotland)
    • 25 July 2012
    ... ... that the cumulative effect of this less favourable discriminatory treatment was the reason for her resignation and her constructive unfair dismissal: para 132. The criticism that was advanced in the Inner House that it erred in basing this conclusion on the cumulative effect of all the matters ... ...
  • Anyanwu and Another v South Bank Students' Union and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 22 March 2001
    ... ... made against a number of parties, and Mr Anyanwu again relied on the suspension of 22 February 1996, his expulsion on 29 March 1996 and his dismissal on 2 April 1996. Mr Ebuzoeme made a similar complaint in his form of application, relying on the same three events. He also submitted a statement in ... ...
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